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- Cartilage
- tough, elastic connective tissue that is more rigid that ligaments but more dense then bone
- Homeostasis
- State in which the regulatroy mechanisms of the body maintain a contact internal environment
- pH
- Indicates the degree of acidity or alkalinty of a substance
- Septum
- Wall divinding two cavaties, (Sepration of two nosterals)
- Serous Membrane
- Thin Layer of tissue that covers inernal body cavaties, the cells of which secerate a fluid that keeps the membrane moist
- Nasal Cavity
- A chamber of lined with mucous membranes and tiny hairs.
- Olfactory Neurons
- Receptors for the sense of smell
- Pharynx
- muscular tube that serves for passage way for food and air
- Nasopharynx
- Posterior to the nose
- Oropharynx
- Posterior to the mouth
- Epilottis
- Seals off the air passage to the lungs for swallowing
- Trachea
- Windpipe
- Mediastinum
- Space between the right and left lungs
- Pleura
- Covers the lobes of the lungs and folds over to line the walls of the thoracic cavity
- Visceral Pleura
- membrane thatl ines the thoracic cavity
- Inspiration
- decrasing pressure within the chest
- Nas
- nose
- sept
- septum
- sinus
- sinus/cavity
- adenioud
- adenoids
- epiglott
- epiglottis
- laryng
- voice box
- alveol
- alveolus, air sac
- pneum
- air,lung
- pulmon
- lung
- anthrac
- coal, coal dust
- atel
- incomplete
- coni
- dust
- cyan
- blue
- orth
- straight
- ox
- oxygen
- pector
- chest
- phren
- involuntary contraction of the diaphragm..twitching
- spir
- breathe
- capnia
- carbon dioxide
- osmia
- smell
- phonia
- voice
- pnea
- breathing
- ptysis
- spitting
- thorax
- chest
- brady
- slow
- dys
- bad, painful
- eu
- good, normal
- tachy
- rapid
- Pulmonology
- Medial Speciality concered with disorders of the respiratiory system
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Inflamtion of the bronchi mainly caused my smoking and air pollution
- Influeenize
- Acute infectious respiratiory viral disease
- Myalgia
- Muscle Pain
- Ausculation
- listeinging of sounds made by organs of the body using stethoscope
- Percussion
- Gentle tapping the chest with the fingers and listeing to the resultant sounds to derermine the posion, size or consistency of underlying structures
- Thoraconcentessis
- Undertaken to remove exess fluid for diagnoisis
- Tuberculosis
- Disease caused by bacerium
- Pneumonia
- Any inflammatory Disease of the lungs that may be casued by bacteria, viruses or fungi.
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Hereditory disorder of the exocrine glands that causes body to secerete thick mucus
- acidossi
- Excessive acidity of body fluids
- Anosmia
- Absence of sense of smell
- Acute Respir Distress Syndrome
- Condition in which the lungs no longer function effectively.
- Hyaline Membrane Disease
- A form of Resp. Disease, mostly seen in preterm infants or infants born to diabetic mothers.
- Apnea
- Temp. Loss of Breathing
- Asphyxia
- Condition caused by insufficent intake of oxygen
- Atelectasis
- Collapsed or airless state of the lungs
- Chene-Stokes Resp
- Repeated breathing pattern. First Resp, deeply, swallow, and stop
- Compliance
- Ease with which lung tissue can be stretched
- Coryza
- Head Cold, upper Resp Infection
- Crackle
- Abnormal resp. sound heard on ausculation, cause by exudates, spasms, hyperplasia
- croup
- commonn child condition involving inflamtion of the larynx
- deviated nasal septum
- displacement of cartilage diving the nostrils
- epiglottis
- Servere, Life Threating infection of the epiglottis and suprlottice structures that appear most common
- episaxis
- nose bleed
- finge clubbing
- Enlargement of the terminal phalanges of the fingers and toes
- hypoxemia
- Deficiency of oxygen and the blood
- Hypoxia
- Defiencecy of oxygen in tissues
- Pertussis
- Whooping Cough
- Pleurisy
- Inflamation o the pleural membrane characterized by a stabbing pain that is intensfied by coughing or deep breathing
- Pneumonconiossi
- Disease cause by inhaling dust particles
- Pulmonary Edema
- Accumlation of extravascualr fluid in the lung tissues
- Pulmonary Embolus
- Blockage in an arery of the lungs caused by a mass of undissolved matter
- rhonchus
- Abnormal Breathing
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Unexpected death of an appartently normal infant less than 1yr old
- Wheeze
- Whistling of sighing sound heard on ausculation that results from narrowing of the lumen of respiratiory passageway
- Oximentry
- Noninvasive method of montoring percentage of Hemoglobin satured with Oxygen
- Polysomnography
- Test of sleep cycels and stages using continious recordings of brain waves, electrical activity of muscles,eye movement, resp rate, BP, Blood oxygen Saturation, heart rhythem,
- Spiromentry
- Measurement of venilatory ability by assessing lung capacity and flow including the time necessary for exhaling the total amound of air inhaled
- Throat Culture
- Test used to idenify pathogens
- Artieral Blood Gas
- Test the meausres the partial presure of oxygen , carbon dioxiside , acid, and biacarbonate level of arterial blood in a sample
- Aersoal Therpy
- Lung treatment with inhaler
- Lavage
- Washing out of an organ, stomach,bladder, bowel or body cavity
- Postural Drainage
- Postioning a patient so that gravity aids in the drainage of secreation from the bronchi and lobes of the lungs
- Pneuemctomy
- Excistion of the lung
- Rhinoplasty
- Reconstructive Surgery of the nose to correct deformities for cosmetic purposes
- Septoplasty
- Surgical Repair of a deviated nasal septum
- Thoracentessis
- Surgical puncture and drainage of plural Cavity
- Antihistamines
- Block histamines from binding with histamine receptor sites in tissues
- Antitussives
- Releive or suppress coughing by blocking the cough reflux in the medulla of the brain
- Bronchodilatiors
- Stimulate bronchila mucles to elax
- Corticosteriods
- Act on the immune system by blocking production of substances that trigger allergic and inflammatory actions
- Decongestants
- Constrict blood vessels of nasal passages and limit blood flow, which casues swollen tissue to shirink so that air can pass more freely
- Expectorants
- Liquify respir. Secreations so that they are more easily dislodge during coughing eposides