Medical terminologies
1. Why does the term expired mean that a patient has died?
2. What are the benefits of having the lungs inside the rib cage, close to the heart?
3. How does the environment affect lung health?
4. What is the biggest lifestyle change you can make to decrease your chances of getting lung cancer?
5. Why is digestion important? Think of diseases/disorders of the gastrointestinal system. Which function(s) do they impair?
6. A patient has part of his intestines removed. How would you build a term to represent the “new opening” between the two remaining parts of the patient’s intestines? Pronounce your result.
7. When building medical terms, especially those related to the GI system, the order of the combining forms is important; for example, gastroenteritis and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Consider the significance of these different orderings. What might these differences mean?
Medical terminologies
When you say that someone has expired what it means is, the person has expelled air for the last time. In other words, he has stopped breathing and is therefore dead. Expire is considered by many to be literally. When you die you cease to live. We use the term expired because it sounds more respectful when referring to the dead. It gives the listener a little more time to take in the message. It is not as shocking because we don’t usually use the word and we have to stop and think about it. The word can be used not only with people, but also with things, things which have the appearance of life.
