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Chapter 13- Respiratory System Flashcards

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Larynx

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Voice box

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Pharynx

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Throat

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Epiglottis

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A tracheal flap

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Anoxia

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Related to without oxygen

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Aphonia

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Without voice

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Apnea

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Without breathing

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Aspiration

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Choke, breathe in stomach contents, or withdraw fluid

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Auscultation

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Listening to sounds

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Cyanosis

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Condition of blueness

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Dysphonia

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Difficult or painful voice

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Dyspnea

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Difficult or painful breathing

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Effusion

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A flowing out of fluid or gas

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Emphysema

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An irreversible chronic pulmonary disease

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Epistaxis

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A nosebleed

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Hemoptysis

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Blood in expectoration or lung production

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Hemothorax

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Blood in chest cavity

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Hypercapnea

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Excessive breathing

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Hypoxia

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Related to low oxygen intake

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Legionnaire’s Disease

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A severe bacillic pneumonia

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Patent

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Open or unblocked

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Pneumothorax

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Air collecting within the chest cavity

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Sputum

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A lung production or a substance that is coughed up

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Stridor

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An urgent high pitched throat or breath sound

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Tachypnea

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Fast breathing

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Tuberculosis

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A communicable bacterial infection with potentially serious systemic reprocussions

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Intubate

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Insertion of a tube

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