Medical Terminology

3. A thick, slippery secretion that functions as a lubricant and protects various surfaces.
5. A defect in the chest wall that allows for free movement of a segment, causing paradoxical chest wall movement.
9. (___ Breathing) An asymmetrical chest wall movement caused by a defect (flail chest) that lessens respiratory efficiency.
11. The act of retching or striving to vomit; a normal reflex triggered by touching the soft palate or the throat.
12. To pass a tube into the opening of the body
13. Open; not obstructed

1. The amount of air inhaled and exhaled in one minute; respiratory rate time the tidal volume.
2. A membrane lining many of the body cavities that handle air transport, usually containing small, mucus-secreting glands.
4. Mechanical process that moves air in and out of the lungs
6. The microscopic air sacs where the oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange takes place
7. (Pulmonary ____) Blood clot or other thrombus in the pulmonary circulation that adversely affects oxygenation of the blood.
8. To take foreign material into the lungs during inhalation
10. The exchange of gases between a living organism and its environment