Respiratory Terms Combining forms
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| adenoid/o | adenoids | lymphoid tissue located behind the nasal cavity
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| alveol/o | alveolus | air sacs at the end of the bronchioles
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| bronch/i, bronch/o | bronchus | one of two branches from the trachea, which conducts air into the lungs
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| bronchioles | bronchioles | smallest subdivision of the bronchial tree
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| diaphragmat/o | diaphragm | muscular partition that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity
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| epiglott/o | epiglottis | flap of cartilage that automatically covers the opening of the larynx during swallowing and keeps food from entering
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| laryng/o | larynx | location of the vocal cords
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| lob/o | lobe | the right lung consists of 3 lobes, the left lung consists of 2 lobes
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| nas/o, rhin/o | nose | lined with mucous membrane and fine hairs. It acts as a filter to moisten and warm the entering air
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| pharyng/o | pharynx | (throat) serves as a food and air passageway
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| pleur/o | pleura | serous membrane covering each lung and lineing the thoracic cavity
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| pneum/o, pheumat/o, pheumon/o | lung, air | refeering to a diagnosis
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| pulmon/o | lungs | two sponge-like organs in the thoracic cavity
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| sept/o | septum (walled off, fenced) | nasal septum - partition separating the right and left nasal cavities
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| sinus/o | sinus | paranasal sinuses - air vacities with the cranial bones that open into the nasal cavities
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| thorac/o | thorax (chest) | also refeering to the pleural space
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| tonsill/o | tonsil, tonsils | lymphoid tissue located behind the mouth
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| trache/o | trachea | (windpipe) passageway for air to the bronchi
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