Chapter 13 Flashcards
throat
pharynx
voice box
larynx
a tracheal flap (that usually closes when swallowing)
epiglottis
related to without oxygen
anoxia
without voice (related to a laryngeal issue)
aphonia
listening to sounds (breath, bowel, or heart)
auscultation
a condition of blueness (due to insufficient O2 to tissues)
cyanosis
difficult or painful voice (related to laryngeal issues)
dysphonia
difficult or painful breathing
dyspnea
a flowing out of fluid or gas
effusion
an irreversible chronic pulmonary disease (distended alveoli)
emphysema
a nosebleed
epistaxis
blood in expectoration or lung production
hemoptysis
blood in chest cavity
hemothorax
excessive breathing (and increased blood CO2)
hypercapnea
related to low oxygen intake
hypoxia
a severe bacillic pneumonia (often with GI issues)
Legionnaire’s disease
open or blocked (for example: a patient’s airway or lumen)
patent
air collecting within the chest cavity (causes dyspnea)
pneumothorax
a lung production or a substance that is coughed up
sputum
an urgent high pitched throat or breath sound
stridor
fast breathing
tachypnea
a communicable bacterial infection with potentially serious systemic reprocussions
tuberculosis (TB)
insertion of a tube (to establish an airway, for an example)
intubate
