Respiratory

Question 1

apnea

Answer 1

slowed or stopped breathing

Question 2

adventitious sounds

Answer 2

crackles, wheezes or rhonchi

Question 3

bifurcation

Answer 3

split at end of main bronchi

Question 4

bradypnea

Answer 4

slow heart rate

Question 5

bronchial breath sounds

Answer 5

hollow sounds

listen over large airways

Question 6

consolidation

Answer 6

hardening of exudate

Question 7

crackles

Answer 7

sound of collapsed alveoli

Question 8

dyspnea

Answer 8

difficulty breathing

Question 9

eupnea

Answer 9

normal breathing

Question 10

fremitus

Answer 10

vibration heard when palpating lungs

inc when lungs consolidated

Question 11

hemoptysis

Answer 11

coughing up blood

Question 12

hyper resonance

Answer 12

sound heard when too much air in lungs

Question 13

pneumothorax

Answer 13

collapsed lung

Question 14

resonance

Answer 14

sound heard in lungs with percussion

Question 15

rhonchi

Answer 15

low pitched- rattling lung soud

caused by obstructions in airway

Question 16

sputum

Answer 16

thick mucus

Question 17

stridor

Answer 17

abnorm.
high-pitched breathing sound
(blockage in larynx)

Question 18

tactile fremitus

Answer 18

vibration heard when percussing

low-frequency vocalization

Question 19

tachypnea

Answer 19

fast heart rate

Question 20

thoracic configuration

Answer 20

check for scars or wounds on chest

Question 21

vesicular breath sounds

Answer 21

low pitched normal sounds

inspiratory phase longer than expiratory