Medical Terminology
Module 5 Class I Study Guide
1. What is the difference between internal and external respiration?
2. List the paranasal sinuses and describe the purposes of them.
3. What is the root word for nose?
4. List and define all the terms related to the nose.
5. What is the larynx and where is it located?
6. What is the difference between the glottis and the epiglottis?
7. What is meant by phonation?
8. Describe the Adam’s Apple.
9. Draw and label a picture of the trachea and the bronchus.
10. What is the purpose of the alveoli?
11. Describe the lungs.
12. Draw and label the lungs.
13. List all the terms that you know that mean “lungs”.
14. What is the mediastinum?
15. How does the mucosa help the respiratory system?
16. What is the function of cilia and where are they located?
17. What is the purpose of mucus?
18. What is the difference between the parietal pleura and the visceral pleura?
19. What muscles are used for breathing?
20. Define the following terms:
-pnea
-aer
spiro-
rhino-
21. What is the word for loss of sense of smell?
22. What is rhinitis, including the symptoms?
23. What is bronchiectasis?
24. Describe emphysema.
25. What is asthma?
26. Describe influenza.
27. What condition is common among musicians who play wind instruments and what occurs as a result of it?
28. Define tracheaesophageal fistula.
29. What is Legionnaires’ disease? How is it caught? (You may need to look this one up online.)
30. What is wrong with me if I have pneumonia? What are my symptoms? You may need to look this one up also.
31. What disease is caused by exposure to cotton dust? Coal dust? Asbestos? Silicon?
32. What is atalectasis? When might it occur? (Another one to look up.)
33. What disease can someone catch from birds?
34. What happens in a hemothorax?
35. Describe pleurisy.
36. What is tuberculosis?
37. What is the difference between a pneumothorax and a hemothorax?
38. What is apnea?
39. Describe cyanosis and what causes it.
40. What occurs when you inhale a foreign object into the airway?
41. Describe what is meant by orthopnea.
42. What term means abnormally fast breathing?
43. What occurs in sleep apnea?
44. What term means difficulty breathing?
45. What is stridor?
46. Provide the terms that mean the following:
a. cutting into the trachea
b. surgical removal of the lung
c. creating a opening into the trachea
d. puncture of the thoracic cavity
e. removal of a lobe of the lung
f. drug that breaks down mucus
g. drug that is inhaled
h. drug that dilates the bronchioles
i. drug that controls coughing
j. drug that decreases respiratory congestion