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25 Cards in this Set
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respiratory system
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The integrated system of organs involved in the intake and exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between an organism and the environment.
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Respiration
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(2): The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing. Also known as Ventilation
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Asthm
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(3): sob, short of breath
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Bronch
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(4): Related to breathing
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Hem/Sang
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(5): Blood
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Oro/stom
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(6): Mouth
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SINUSES(10)
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(frontal, maxillary, and sphenoidal)
the nose holes in the skull |
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Pulmo
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(8): Lung
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ADENOIDS(11)
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lymph tissue at the top of the throat
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throat
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connects incomming air from the mouth nose and sends it down the windpipe [trachea]
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EPIGLOTTIS
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thing that closes when you swallow
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LYMPH NODES (18)
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found against the walls of the bronchial tubes and windpipe.
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LOBES (21)
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Sections of the lungs. Air moves in and out through one opening -- a branch of the bronchial tube.
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PLEURA(22)
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the two membranes that surround each lobe of the lungs and separate the lungs from the chest wall.
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BRONCHIOLES(25)
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The smallest subdivisions of the bronchial tubes at the ends of which are the air sacs or alveoli (plural of alveolus).
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Signs of Respiratory distress(26)
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Breathing rate
Color changes Nose Flaring Sweating Wheezing |
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Cystic Fibrosis (CF)(27)
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- is and inherited disease characterized by an abnormality in the glands the pruoduce sweat and mucus. It is chronic, progressive,and is usually fatal.
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Primary Pulmonary Hypertension-
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is a lung disorder in which the blood pressure in the pulmonary artery rises far above normal levels.
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DYSPNEA
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Difficulty in breathing
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SYNCOPE
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Fainting Spells
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EDEMAS
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EDEMASwelling in the ankles or legs
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ANGINA
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Chest pain
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Pleural effusion
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Pneumonia symptoms- There is a buildup of fluid in the space between the lung and chest wall
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Empyema
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Pneumonia symptoms- pockets of pus that form in the space between the lung and chest wall
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abscess
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Pneumonia symptoms-pockets of pus that form in the lung itself
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