Exam 4: Pulmonology Respiratory System

When you build a drug word that means "pertaining to (being)against (a)cough," you would use all of the following word parts EXCEPT ________.

________ is a hyperreactivity of the bronchi and bronchioles following exposure to a triggering agent.

Which of the following is caused by a backup of blood in the pulmonary circulation because of failure of the left side of the heart to pump blood?

The abbreviation PND stands for ________.

Which of these structures is directly posterior to the mouth?

The combining form pneum/o- means ________.

To indicate that a surgical incision was made into the chest cavity to access the lung,the thoracic surgeon dictated that: "A ________ was performed."

Which syllable is the primary accented syllable in the medical word bronchopulmonary (brong-koh-pul-moh-nair-ee)?

The combining form pharyng/o- means "pharynx;________."

In the medical word bronchospasm,the suffix -spasm means ________.

The protein-fat compound that reduces surface tension and keeps the walls of the alveoli from collapsing is called ________.

A patient with a hemothorax has ________.

The combining form tuss/o- in the word antitussive means ________.

The combining form thorac/o- means "________ ;thorax."

All of the following are types of lung cancer EXCEPT ________.

The physician suspected tuberculosis when George Richards complained of ________,also known as coughing up blood.

A patient with cystic fibrosis would have which treatments?

A thoracentesis is defined as a "procedure to ________ (the)chest."

The plural form of bronchus is ________.

The ________,a sheet of skeletal muscle that lies along the inferior border of the thoracic cavity,is active during breathing.