Chapter 30 vocabulary
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- Respiration
- the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the body cells.
- Carbon dioxide
- A gas that is exchange in the lungs
- Hypoventilation
- Slow, shallow, and irregular
- Hypoxemia
- Amount of oxygen in the blood
- Aspiration
- the act of inhaling fluid or a foreign body into the bronchi and lungs, often after vomiting.
- Oxygen concentration
- Amount of hemoglobin containing oxygen
- Hyperventilation
- Rapid and deeper than normal
- Apnea
- Lack of breathing
- Pneumothorax
- Air in the pleural space
- Suction
- Withdrawing or sucking up fluid
- Hemoptysis
- Bloody sputum
- Respiration arrest
- Breathing stops
- Oxygen
- colorless tasteless odorless gas
- Mechanical ventilation
- Using a machine to move air inro and out of the lungs
- Cyanosis
- a physical sign causing bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes
- Pleural effusion
- Escape and collection of fluid in the pleural space.
- Cheyne-Stokes respirations
- Gradully increase in rate and depth and than shallow and slow
- Dyspnea
- Painful breathing
- Kussmaul's respirations
- Very deep and rapid respirations
- Intubation
- Artifical airway
- Orthopnea
- Deeply and comfortably only when sitting
- Hemothorax
- Blood in the pleural space
- Hypoxia
- Cells dont't have enough oxygen
- Allergy
- A sensitivity to a substance that causes the body to react with signs and symptoms