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Unit 5
Medical terminology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bradypnea | slow breathing |
| Orthopnea | able to breathe only in an upright position |
| Dsyphonia | bad voice condition (also known as hoarseness) |
| Epistaxis | a nosebleed |
| Rhinorrhea | runny nose |
| Bronchospasm | involuntary contraction of the bronchus |
| pleurodynia | pain in the pleura |
| Thoracalgia | chest pain |
| Expectoration | coughing or spitting material out of the lungs |
| Sputum | mucus discharge from the lungs by coughing |
| Auscultation | a health care professional using a stethoscope to a patient's chest |
| Pectus Carinatum | a chest that protrudes like the keel of a ship |
| Atelectasis | incomplete expansion |
| Caseous Necrosis | the death of tissue with a cheese like appearance |
| Phrenoptosis | drooping of the diagram |