The abbreviation PFT refers to tests that measure the capacity of the lungs and the volume of air during inhalation and exhalation.

Build a surgical word that means separation, destruction, or loosening of a blood clot.______________________________

Build a word that means enlargement of the heart.______________________________

Use tachy- (rapid) to build a word that means rapid breathing.______________________________

Which of the following is a rare form of lung cancer that develops in the pleura and is caused primarily by the inhalation of asbestos fibers?

Use brady- (slow) to build a word that means slow breathing.______________________________

Use pneum/o (air; lung) to build a word that means excision of a lung.______________________________

Build a surgical word that means excision or removal of an embolus.______________________________

Atherotomy is the loosening of plaque from an artery.

Build a word that means paralysis of the larynx.______________________________