Medical Terminology Respiratory System

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

• Hemoralgia
• Dyspnea
• malcarbona
• apnea

Which of the following is true about the trachea

• The Adam's apple acts as a shield of cartilage for it
• It is lined with mucous membrane and cilia
• It connects directly to the bronchioles
• The epiglottis covers it

Gas exchange occurs in the lungs at the alveoli

• true
• false

The root word PNEUMON/O or PULMON/O 

• chest
• lungs 
• ribs 
• head

Tachypnea means slow breathing

• True
• False, fast breathing

blood in the chest

• hemothorax
• thorcotomy
• hemocartilage
• pneumothorax

blue skin caused by low oxygen in blood

• cyanosis
• epistaxis
• rales
• cyanuecstasis

hypo-

• less than normal
• Large
• Below
• Swallow

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

process of increasing the breathing process by breathing in deeply and rapidly

• respiration
• hyperventilation
• inspiration
• expiration