Chapter 13

Question 1

throat

Answer 1

pharynx

Question 2

voice box

Answer 2

larynx

Question 3

a tracheal flap (that usually closes when swallowing)

Answer 3

epiglottis

Question 4

related to without oxygen

Answer 4

anoxia

Question 5

without voice (related to a laryngeal issue)

Answer 5

aphonia

Question 6

listening to sounds (breath, bowel, or heart)

Answer 6

auscultation

Question 7

a condition of blueness (due to insufficient O2 to tissues)

Answer 7

cyanosis

Question 8

difficult or painful voice (related to laryngeal issues)

Answer 8

dysphonia

Question 9

difficult or painful breathing

Answer 9

dyspnea

Question 10

a flowing out of fluid or gas

Answer 10

effusion

Question 11

an irreversible chronic pulmonary disease (distended alveoli)

Answer 11

emphysema

Question 12

a nosebleed

Answer 12

epistaxis

Question 13

blood in expectoration or lung production

Answer 13

hemoptysis

Question 14

blood in chest cavity

Answer 14

hemothorax

Question 15

excessive breathing (and increased blood CO2)

Answer 15

hypercapnea

Question 16

related to low oxygen intake

Answer 16

hypoxia

Question 17

a severe bacillic pneumonia (often with GI issues)

Answer 17

Legionnaire’s disease

Question 18

open or blocked (for example: a patient’s airway or lumen)

Answer 18

patent

Question 19

air collecting within the chest cavity (causes dyspnea)

Answer 19

pneumothorax

Question 20

a lung production or a substance that is coughed up

Answer 20

sputum

Question 21

an urgent high pitched throat or breath sound

Answer 21

stridor

Question 22

fast breathing

Answer 22

tachypnea

Question 23

a communicable bacterial infection with potentially serious systemic reprocussions

Answer 23

tuberculosis (TB)

Question 24

insertion of a tube (to establish an airway, for an example)

Answer 24

intubate