Medical Terminology Respiratory System

The patient has with complaints of a chronic stuffy nose. He needs to see a(n)..

• Pulmonologist

• Otolaryngologist

• Allergist

• hematologist

The patient has COPD. This is

• clotted up pulmonary diets
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• rhinitis
• a type of pneumonia

The patient is having problems breathing. A medical term for this is...

• Hemoralgia
• Dyspnea
• malcarbona
• apnea

The patient has COPD. He should see a...

• allergist
• hematologist
• pulmonologist
• ENT

Another name for an Otolaryngologist is

• EMT
• Rhinologist
• ENT
• Ear Doctor

Incomplete expansion of the alveoli; collapsed lung.

• atelectasis

• acute pulmonary distress syndrome

• pulmonary edema

• pneumothorax

Accumulation of fluid in the lungs is known as 

• atelectasis
• acute pulmonary distress syndrome
• pulmonary edema
• pneumothorax

the accumulation of gas (or air) in the pleural space causing the lung to collapse from the outside.

• atelectasis
• acute pulmonary distress syndrome
• pulmonary edema
• pneumothorax

Chronic inflammatory disease in which small nodules develop in lungs, lymph nodes and other organs.

• atelectasis

• sarcoidosis

• pulmonary edema

• pneumothorax

Fine, crackling sound heard on auscultation

• rales

• rhonchi

• murmur

• pleural rub