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A&P Clinical Terms
UAA BIOL 112 Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A dangerous lung condition that can develop after severe illness or injury to the body. Neutrophils leave the body's capillaries in large numbers and then secrete chemicals that increase capillary permeability. | Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) |
| Surgical removal of an infected pharyngeal tonsil (adenoids). | Adenoidectomy (adenotonsillectomy) |
| The act of inhaling or drawing something into the lungs or respiratory passages. | Aspiration |
| Use of a viewing tube inserted through the nose or mouth to examine the internal surface of the main bronchi in the lung. | Bronchoscopy |
| Abnormal breathing pattern sometimes seen just before death (the "death rattle") and in people with combined neurological and cardiac disorders. Consists of bursts of tidal volume breaths alternating with periods of apnea. | Cheyne-Stokes breathing |
| Condition in which the nasal septum takes a more lateral course than usual and may obstruct breathing: often manifests in old age or from nose trauma. | Deviated septum |
| A thin plastic tube threaded into the trachea through the nose or mouth; used to deliver oxygen to patients who are breathing inadequately, in a coma, or under anesthesia. | Endotracheal tube |
| Nosebleed; commonly following trauma to the nose or excessive nose blowing. | Epistaxis |
| Mushroomlike benign neoplasms of the nasal mucosa; sometimes caused by infections, but most often cause is unknown; may block airflow. | Nasal Polyps |
| Inability to breathe in the horizontal position. | Orthopnea |
| Branch of medicine that deals with diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the ears, nose and throat. | Otorhinolaryngology |
| Infectious inflammation of the lungs, in which fluid accumulates in the alveoli; the eighth most common cause of death in the United States. Most of the more than 50 different varieties of pneumonia are viral or bacterial. | Pneumonia |
| Obstruction of the pulmonary artery or one of its branches by an embolus (most often a blood clot that has been carried from the lower limbs and through the right side of the heart into the pulmonary circulation). | Pulmonary embolism |
| An immune deficiency disease in which the thymus fails to develop. Affected individuals have no T cells, hence little or no immune protection; fetal thymic and bone marrow transplants have been helpful in some cases. | Congenital thymic aplasia |
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