NURS 120 - Terminology Worksheet Week 5 PDF

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Course: NURS 120 WEEK 5 TERMINOLOGY WORKSHEET: RESPIRATORY

Student Name: Tatiana Vasallo Define the following terms. Submit your work in a Word document to the drop-box provided in Blackboard. Make sure to include your name on your paper. This terminology is due on the first day of the week in which content is covered. 1.

Pneumo: Prefix pertaining to breathing, respiration, the lungs, or air.

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Cyano: A bluish color to the skin or mucous membrane is usually due to a lack of oxygen in the blood

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Thorax: The part of the mammalian body situated between the neck and the abdomen and supported by the ribs, costal cartilages, and sternum.

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Rhin- A prefix meaning nose\nasal.

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Sinu-A prefix meaning sinus or cavity.

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Adventitious: coming from an external source or occurring in an unusual place or manner

7. Compliance (pulmonary): This is the total compliance of both lungs, measuring the extent to which the 8.

lungs will expand for each unit increase in the trans-pulmonary pressure. Fremitus: A vibration felt when an examiner palpates a part of the body.

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Respiration: the act of inhaling and exhaling air to exchange oxygen for carbon

10. Ventilation: Airflow in the lungs and the atmosphere from carbon dioxide to oxygen in the alveoli. 11. Crepitus: is the abnormal crackling or popping sound that occurs due to internal tissues rubbing together. 12. Rhonchi: usually caused by secretions in bronchial airways are coarse rattling respiratory sounds. 13. Wheezes: is a high-pitched whistling lung sound made while breathing 14. Dyspnea: Difficult or labored breathing 15. Orthopnea: discomfort when breathing while laying down flat; a condition that is common with some types of heart or lung conditions 16. Crackles: are the clicking, rattling, or crackling noises present in one or both lungs 17. Hypoventilation: is shallow or slow respiration. 18. Hyperventilation: is deep and rapid breathing. 19. Tachypnea: rapid respiration 20. Bradypnea: abnormally slow respiration 21. Biots: is an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of regular deep inspirations 22. Agonal: Distressed Gasping; occurs when one struggles to breathe due to cardiac or other medical distress. 23. Obstructive: blockage of a vessel or passageway 24. Reactive: reference to a response or reaction to disease, injury, condition, or symptom.

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