CLA 3381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intercostal Muscle, Bronchiectasis, Bronchospasm
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Oxygen: ox/i-, ox/o-, ox/y- oxygen, quick, comes from the greek word oxys meaning quick, acute, pointed, rapid. Oxyhemoglobin: ox/y- oxygen, quick, hem/o- blood, glob/o- shaped like a globe, comprehensive. Oxygenated: ox/y- oxygen, quick, gen/o- arising from, produced by. Asthma, asthmatic: asthma/o- asthma, hyperactivity of the bronchi and bronchioles reactive airway disease. Spasm sudden, involuntary contraction: contraction of the smooth muscle of the bronchioles. Ectasis condition of dilation: chronic permanent enlargement and loss of elasticity of the bronchioles. Incomplete expansion or collapse of part or all of a lung due to mucus, tumor, trauma, or a foreign body. Retraction re- again and again, backward, unable to tract/o- pulling. In premature infants who produce too little surfactant: action of backward pulling (of breastbone and/or the soft tissue and muscles between the ribs) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a combination of two diseases, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, obstruct/o- blocked by a barrier, em- in, phys/o- inflate, distend, grow.
