Clinical Terms

Question 1

Dyspnoea

Answer 1

Shortness of breath

Question 2

Tachypnoea

Answer 2

Fast breathing

Question 3

Hypoventilation

Answer 3

Shallow and under breathing

Question 4

Arrythmias

Answer 4

Irregular heart beat

Question 5

Peripheral vasodilation

Answer 5

Blood vessels widening

Question 6

Causes of Hypoventilation

Answer 6

Depression of respiratory centre
Disease of medulla
Disease of inspiratory muscles and their nerves
Thoracic cage abnormalities

Question 7

What is diffusion impairment

Answer 7

Pa02 and pac02 are the same

Caused by intersital fibrosis

Question 8

Interstitial fibrosis

Answer 8

Stiffening of connective tissue around lungs

Question 9

Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis

Answer 9

Inflammation of alveoli

Question 10

Alveolar cell caticinoma

Answer 10

Cancer of alveoli

Question 11

Pulmonary oedema

Answer 11

Fluid around alveoli

Question 12

Shunting

Answer 12

Blood reaches arterial system without passing ventilated parts of the lung

Question 13

What causes shunting

Answer 13

Congenital heart disease
Consolidated pneumonic lobe
Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Question 14

Consolidated pneumonic lobe

Answer 14

Severe infection of lung

Question 15

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Answer 15

Fluid around lungs

Question 16

Pleural effusion

Answer 16

Water between lungs

Question 17

Haemoptysis

Answer 17

Blood on lungs

Question 18

Haemothorax

Answer 18

Blood in pleural cavity