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1. Respiratory system terminology
Chapter four ‘
LECTURER: Salad A. Ahmed
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2. Terms and their meaning
A/pnea
• Absence of breathing
Dys/apnea
• Difficult of breathing
Hyper/apnea
• Increased rate and depth of breathing
Tachy/pnea
• Rapid breathing

3. Terms and their meaning
Brady/pnea
• Slow breathing
Orth/pnea
• Able to breathing only when sitting or standing
Hem/o/pty/sis
• Expectoration couching up blood
Hyper/venil/ation
• Excessive movement of air in and out of lungs , sighing respiration

4. Terms and their meaning
Hyp/oxia
• Low oxygen of organs and tissue
Cyan/osis
• Bluish color due to hypoxia
Pne/o/pnea
• Breathing
Pneum/o
• Air or lung

5. Terms and their meaning
Pneumon/ia
• Acute inflammation of the lung cuased by organisms such as virus
Pneumon/itis
• Inflammation of the lung
Pneumon/ectomy
• Excision of part or all of lung
Pneumon/o/tomy
• Incision of a lung

6. Terms and their meaning
Pneumon/o/pathy
• Any disease of the lung
Pneumon/o/rrhagia
• Hemorrhage of a lung
Pneumon/o/pexy
• Surgical fixtion of lung tissue
Pneumon/o/centesis
• Surgical punture of a lung to remove fluids

7. Terms and their meaning
Atelectasis
• Atletes means greek word
• Ektasis means expanded or dilate I greek
• Ectasia ---ectasis: dilation or expansion
• Atel/ectasis : is the imperfect expansion of the lung when collapsed lung
( collapsed alveola )

8. Terms and their meaning
Melan/o
• Means black
Pneumon/o/melan/osis
• A lung disease in which lung tissue becomes black due to breathing black
dust, soot , or black smoke.
Pneum/o/derma
• Collection of air under the skin
Pneumo/o/thorax
• Collection of air in the chest cavity

9. Terms and their meaning
Pneum/o/therapy
• Treatment with compressed air
Pulmon/ary
• Pertaining to the lung
Pulmon/ary/embolus
• A blood clot moving to the lung
Nas/al
• Pertaining to the nose

10. Terms and their meaning
Ment/o :
• means chin
• Nas/o/ment/al : Pertaining to the nasal cavity and chin
Nas/o/antr/itis
• Inflammation of the antrum
Nas/itis
• Inflammation of the nose

11. Terms and their meaning
Nas/o/scope
• Instrument to examine the nose cavity
Na/o/pharyng/itis
• inflammation of nose and pharynx
Or/o/pharyng/itis
• Inlammation of oral and pharynx
Nas/o/front/al
• Pertaining the the nasal and frontal bone

12. Terms and their meaning
Nas/o/lacrim/al
• Pertaining to the nose and lacrimal duct
Epistasis
• Epi : upon
• Stasis: dripping or oozing
• Epi/stasis : nose bleeding or hemorrhage from the nose

13. Terms and their meaning
• Air routes
Nas/o : nose and nasal cavity
Pharng/o :pharynx
Laryng/o :larynx
Trache/o: trachea
Bronch/o : bronchi
Alveo/o : alveoli

14. Terms and their meaning
Pharyng/o/tomy
• Incision of the pharynx
Pharyng/o/pathy
• Disease of the pharynx
Pharyng/o/plast
• Surgical repair of the pharynx
Pharyng/o/scope
• Instrument to examine pharynx

15. Terms and their meaning
Laryng/o/itis
• Inflammation of the larynx
Laryng/algia
• Pain in the larynx
Laryng/o/stomy
• Creating a new opening in the larynx
Laryng/o/tomy
• Incision in to the larynx to create temperary opening

16. Terms and their meaning
Laryng/o/pathy
• Any disease of the larynx
Laryng/o/spasm
• Spasm of the larynx
Trache/o/scopy
• Examination of the trachea
Treache/al
• Incision of trachea and larynx

17. Terms and their meaning
Trache/o/laryng/o/tomy
• Surgical creating of a new opeing in the trachea and larynx
Bronch/itis
• Inflammation of the bronchi
Bronch/o/rrhage
• Brnchial hemorrhage
Bronch/o/spasm
• Spasm of the bronchus

18. Terms and their meaning
Phren/o : means diaphram
Phren/o/plega
• Paralysis of the diaphram
Phren/o/ectomy
• Removal of a phrenic nerve
Pleur/algia
• Pain in the pleura

19. Terms and their meaning
Pleur/itis
• Inflammation in the pleura
Pleur/ectomy
• Excision of the part of pleura
Pleur/o/centesis
• Surgical punturing of the pleura

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