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| bluish color to the skin, lips, mucous membranes and nail beds |
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| Tachpnea-rapid(tachy) breathing(pnea) |
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| Respirations are more than 20 per minute; fever, exercise, pain, pregnancy, airway obstruction and hypoxemia (reduced amount of oxygen in the blood) are common cause. |
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| The process of supplying the cell with oxygen and remove carbondi oxyde from them.
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| A piece of cartilage acts like a lid over the larynx. The epiglottis prevent the food entering in the airwayduring swallowing. |
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| liquid in your mouth which you have coughed up frome yur lungs |
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| Bronchitis means inflammation of the bronchi. Smoking is the major cause. Infection, air pollution and industrial dusts are risk factors. The person has diffical breathng and tires easily. Mucus and inflamed breathing passages obstruct airflow into the lungs. The body cannot get normal amt.of oxygen. |
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| the alveoli enlarge. They become lest elastic. They donot expand and shrink normally with breathing in and out. As result, some air is exhaled. Over time, more alveoli are involved. Oxygen and Carbon dioxide exchange connot occur in affected alveoli. As more air is trapped in the lungs, the person develops a barrel chest |
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| Asthama comes from the greek word of panting. With asthma, the airway becoms inflamed and narrow. Extra mucus is produced. Dyspnea results. Wheezing and coghing are common. So are pain and tightness in the chet. Symtoms are mild to severe. |
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| Apnea is the lack or absence of breahing. In sleep apnea,, pauses in breathing occure during sleep. Pauses last from a few second to over a minute and can occur many time during sleep. |
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| at or toward the front of the body or body part. |
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| at or toward the back of the body or body part. |
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| tbe part nearest to the center or to the point of origin. |
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| the part farthest from the center or from the point of attachment. |
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| away from the mid-line; at the side of the body or body part. |
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| at or near the middle or mid-line of the body or body part. |
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