Chapter 13- Respiratory System

Question 0

Larynx

Answer 0

Voice box

Question 1

Pharynx

Answer 1

Throat

Question 2

Epiglottis

Answer 2

A tracheal flap (that usually closes when swallowing)

Question 3

Anoxia

Answer 3

Related to without oxygen

Question 4

Aphonia

Answer 4

Without voice (related to a laryngeal issue)

Question 5

Apnea

Answer 5

Without breathing

Question 6

Aspiration

Answer 6

Choke, breath in stomach contents, or withdraw fluid

Question 7

Auscultation

Answer 7

Listening to sounds ( breath, bowel, or heart)

Question 8

Cyanosis

Answer 8

A condition of blueness

Question 9

Dysphonia

Answer 9

Difficult or painful voice

Question 10

Dyspnea

Answer 10

Difficult or painful breathing

Question 11

Effusion

Answer 11

A flowing out of fluid or gas

Question 12

Emphysema

Answer 12

An irreversible chronic pulmonary disease (distended alveoli)

Question 13

Epistaxis

Answer 13

A nosebleed

Question 14

Hemoptysis

Answer 14

Blood in expectoration or lung production

Question 15

Hemothorax

Answer 15

Blood in chest cavity

Question 16

Hypercapnea

Answer 16

Excessive breathing (and increased blood CO2)

Question 17

Hypoxia

Answer 17

Related to low oxygen intake

Question 18

Legionnaires disease

Answer 18

A severe bacillic pneumonia (often with GI issues)

Question 19

Patent

Answer 19

Open or unblocked (for example, a patients airway or lumen)

Question 20

Pneumothorax

Answer 20

Air collecting within the chest cavity

Question 21

Sputum

Answer 21

A lung production or a substance that is coughed up (mucus)

Question 22

Stridor

Answer 22

An urgent high pitched throat or breath sound

Question 23

Tachypnea

Answer 23

Fast breathing

Question 24

Tuberculosis

Answer 24

A communicable bacterial infection with potentially serious systemic reprocussions

Question 25

Intubate

Answer 25

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