12-13 Review Flashcards
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What does your epiglottis do?
Closes off the larynx (voice box)
What is bifurcation?
Dividing in two branches
Where does the exchange of gases take place in your lungs?
Alveoli
Before surgery
Preoperative
After surgery
Postoperative
Within a vein
Intravenous
Within a muscle
Intramuscular
Within an artery
Intra-arterial
What is the study of old age
Gerontology
Geriatrics
Born with an abnormality
Congenital anomaly
Born with
Congenital
Malaise
Feeling bad
Voice box
Larynx
Food pipe
Esophagus
Wind pipe
Trachea
Throat
Pharynx
Lining of your lungs
Pleura
Disease of pus in your throat
Pharyngopyopathy
Inability to control excretory functions
Incontinence
Within the abdomen
Intra-abdominal
Surgical puncture of the lungs
Pnemonocentesis
Surgical puncture of the pleura
Pleurocentesis
Paralysis of the diaphragm
Phrenoplegia
Removal of half the stomach
Hemigastrectomy