Chapter 7 Vocab

Question 1

Anthracosis

Answer 1

Accumulation of carbon in the lungs from inhaled smoke or coal dust

Question 2

Antitussive

Answer 2

Used to prevent or relieve a cough

Question 3

Aphonia

Answer 3

Inability to produce voice

Question 4

Apnea

Answer 4

Sleep disorder in wish breathing stops and starts

Question 5

Anoxia

Answer 5

Absences of oxygen

Question 6

Asbestosis

Answer 6

A lung disease resulting from inhaling asbestos particulars, marked by severe fibrosis

Question 7

Asphyxia

Answer 7

A condition arising when the body is deprived of oxygen causing unconsciousness

Question 8

Asphyxiation

Answer 8

Dying from lack of oxygen

Question 9

Aspiration pneumonia

Answer 9

a lung infection that develops after you inhale food, liquor, or vomit into your lungs

Question 10

Asthma

Answer 10

Person’s airways become inflamed, narrow, and swell, and produce extra mucus

Question 11

Atelectasis

Answer 11

Complete or partial collapse of a lung or a section of a lung

Question 12

Bradypnea

Answer 12

Abnormally slow breathing rate

Question 13

Bronchodilator

Answer 13

A drug that causes widening of the bronchi

Question 14

Bronchorrhea

Answer 14

Production of more than 100 ML per day of watery sputum

Question 15

Bronchoscopy

Answer 15

Device used to see the Inside of the airways and lungs