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| listening to sounds within the body |
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| tapping on the surface to detemine the difference in the density of the underlying surface |
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| scrachy sound produced by the motion of inflamed or irrtated pleural surfaces rubbing against each other |
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| abnoraml crackling sounds heard during inspiration when there is fuild blood or pus in the alveoli |
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| Material expelled from the chest by coughing or clearing the throat |
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| strainded high pitched noisy sound made on inspiration; associated with obstruction of the laynx or trachea |
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| continuous high pichted whistling sounds heard when air is forced through a narrow space during inspiration or expiration |
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| acute viral infection in infants and children; characterized by obstrution of the larynx barking cough and stridor |
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| acute infection of the throat and upper respiratory tract |
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| bacterial infection of the phaynx larynx and the trachea |
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| chronic inflammatory disoder characterized by airway obstruction caused by edema |
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| chronic dilation of a bronchus secondary to infection in the lower lobes of the lung |
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| cancerous tumors arising from a bronchus |
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| inflammation of the bronchi persisting over a long period of time |
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| inherited disorder of exocrine glands resulting in thick mucous secrections that do not drain normally |
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| incomplete expansion of alveoli collapsed funtionless airless lung or portion of a lung. caused by tumor obtruction of the bronchus or poor respiratory |
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| hyperinflation of air sacs with destruction of alveolar walls |
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| abnormal condition caused by dust in the lungs with chronic inflammation infection and bronchitis |
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| acute inflammation and infection of alveoli, which fill with pus or products of the inflammatory reaction |
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| a large collection of pus (bacterial infection) in the lungs |
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| swelling and fluid in the air sacs bronchioles |
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| clot or other material lodges in vesels of the lungs |
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| formaton of scar tissus in the connective tissuse of the lungs |
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| chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause in which small nodules or tubercles develop in lungs lymp nodes and other organs |
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| infectious disease caused by mycobacterium;lungs are usually involved but any organ in the body may b affected |
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| rare malignant tumor arising in the pleura and associated with exposure to abestos |
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| abnormal accumulation of fluid in the pleural space |
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| inflammation of the pleura |
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| collection of air in the pleural space |
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