Respiratory Crossword

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  1. 2. A condition in which the muscles at the back of the throat relax when asleep and briefly cause the airway to narrow or block. It often causes snoring, but also may result in daytime tiredness.
  2. 3. A medical procedure in which the two membranes lining the lung and the chest wall are stuck together to stop a pleural effusion from coming back.
  3. 6. A machine to help the breathing muscles which works using a tight fitting nose or face mask.
  4. 8. A cancer is a disease where the cells (building blocks) of the body grow and divide out of control.
  5. 11. A disease of unknown cause, that can affect any organ, but which often causes enlargement of glands within the chest.
  6. 15. S specific lung infection that needs careful treatment to cure.
  7. 17. A specific scan using low dose radioactivity to help in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.
  8. 19. An exercise and educational program for people with lung diseases to enable them to manage their condition and optimize their exercise capacity.
  9. 20. A sophisticated scan that helps us to decide whether a shadow we have seen on an x-ray or CT scan is likely to be cancer or not.
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  1. 1. An infection of the lung.
  2. 4. This stands for ‘Early Presentation and Intervention’ in COPD.
  3. 5. The condition where an excess amount of fluid builds up in the space between the lung and the chest wall, squashing the lung and causing breathlessness.
  4. 7. A disease of the airways that results in attacks of breathlessness, as well as coughing and wheezing.
  5. 9. A type of x-ray which shows the structure of the lungs in detail.
  6. 10. Development of a blood clot on the lung.
  7. 12. Airways are inspected and sampled using a thin, flexible telescope.
  8. 13. Helps to decide what the cause of your symptoms may be and are performed in our modern, well-equipped laboratory. Some involve blowing into a machine, others involve breathing different gases. Some tests still involve measuring lung volumes by sitting in a box.
  9. 14. This happens when air has escaped from the lung into the space between the lung and the chest wall.
  10. 16. A thin, flexible tube passed into the space between the lung and the chest wall, to treat a pleural effusion or pneumothorax.
  11. 18. Pulmonary Disease, A disease of the lungs where the lungs become inflated, often as a result of tobacco smoke.