Exam 7: Abbreviationsones to Use and Ones to Avoid

Select the combining form that best matches the definition bronchiole.

The exchange of air between the body and the outside environment is internal respiration.

Food is prevented from entering the windpipe by the Adam's apple.

An artificial opening in the trachea is a laryngostomy.

Bronchodilators are drugs that dilate the walls of the bronchi,and expectorants promote coughing and expulsion of mucus.

Respiration is the taking in of air and the expelling of

Epistaxis is bleeding from the nose.

The double layer of membrane that makes up the outside of each lung is known as the mediastinum.

The pharyngeal tonsils are the adenoids.

Select the combining form that best matches the definition larynx.

Select the combining form that best matches the definition breathing.

Breathing in is known as inhalation or exhilation

Select the combining form that best matches the definition alveolus.

A test that provides a radiological picture of the trachea and bronchi is a bronchography.

A thoracotomy and a tracheotomy are the same operation.

Select the combining form that best matches the definition lobe of the lung.

Anthracosis is a disease caused by long-term inhalation of asbestos.

The larynx is also known as the windpipe,and the trachea is also known as the voice box.

A cartilaginous structure that helps to support the larynx,larger in males than females,is the thyroid cartilage,or Adam's apple.

Difficult breathing is dyspnea .