Med Term Respiratory System

meaning lung

• pulmon/o

• spir/o

• sinus/o

• thorac/o

meaning chest

• pulmon/o

• thorac/o

• trache/o

• spir/o

meaning breathing

• phon/o

• pleur/o

• -pnea

• pneum/o

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

NGSS.HS-LS2-3

to breathe

• pulmon/o

• spir/o

• sinus/o

• trache/o

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

nas/o

• punctuate to withdraw fluid

• breathing

• smell

• nose

meaning trachea or windpipe

• bronch/o

• trache/o

• rhin/o

• sept/o

meaning bronchial tube or bronchus

• layrng/o

• bron/o

• bronch/o

• pulm/o

word part meaning throat

• laryng/o

• thr/o

• laryn/o

• trache/o

oxygen

• oxy/o

• ox/i

• O2

• spir/o

sound or voice

• pleur/o

• somn/o

• spir/o

• phon/o