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Cyanosis |
Bluish discoloration of the skin and mucos membranes, occuring when oxygen in the blood is sharply diminished, as in phyxia |
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Dyspnea |
Shortness of breath or labored, difficult breathing; causes include strenuous activity, lung disorders, heart disease, and extreme stress or tension |
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Apnea |
State of not breathing; arrest of respiration. Attacks can be temporary (in sleep and in some newborn babies) |
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Asphyxia |
Condition in which insufficient or no oxygen reaches the tissues, thereby threatening the life of the organism |
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Tachypnea |
Rapid breathing |
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Bradypnea |
Abnormally slow breathing |
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Hemoptysis |
Coughing up blood from the respiratory tract, usually frothy, bright red, and mixed with sputum |
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Rhinorrhea |
Persistent, usually watery, mucus discharge from the nose, as in the common cold |
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Hypoxia |
Inadequate amounts of oxygen available in the blood |
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Expectoration |
Process of raising material from the respiratory tract by coughing and then spitting it out of the mouth (expecting something to come up) |
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Epistaxis |
breathing from the nose; causes include a blow or other injury, violent sneezing, high BP, and gragile mucus membranes. Control by applying pressure to sides of the nose |
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Auscultation |
Act of listening to body sounds, including from the lungs, heart, and abdomen, as an aid to diagnose |
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Rale |
Abnormal chest sound, usually a bubbling or crackling noise on inspiration, heard through a stethoscope; it is associated with pneumonia, tuberculosis, CHF, and some other respiratory and cardiac disorders |
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Stridor |
Abnormal breathing sound, usually heard on inspiration, occuring when the trachea or larynx is obstructed by neoplasm or inflammation |
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Pneumothorax |
Collection of air or gas in the pleural cavity, causing the lung to collapse. May occur spontaneously but usually results as injury to the chest that allows entrance of air |
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Inspiration |
act of drawing air into the lungs, contraction of the diaphram, causes lungs to expand and air to flow in |
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Expiration |
Act of breathing out air from the lungs |
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Ventilation |
Breathing; the process by which gases are moved into and out of the lungs |
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Respiration |
Process involved in the exhange of gases (oxygen and CO2) between organism and envoirnment involving both external respiration, in which oxyxgen is taken from the air from alveoli in lungs and CO2 is released from blood to be exahled. Waste product is CO2 from organism |
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Wheeze |
Abnormal high-pitched sound heard through a stethoscope in an airway blocked by muscus, neoplasm, muscle spasms, or pressure. Also occurs in asthma |
