RESPIRATORY
BRONCHIECTASIS
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chest
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lungs
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pneum/o, pneumat/o, and pneumon/o all mean lung or air. Obviously the P is silent otherwise it would be pneum/o, pneumat/o, and pneumon/o. You can hear them in the words pneumonia, which is a lung disease, and pneumatic like pneumatic tires which are filled with air. Our next word root is pulmon/o, meaning lung.
Detailed explanation-2: -The word pulmonary is used to describe issues pertaining to the lungs. It is derived from the Latin root word pulmo, which means lung.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pneumo-comes from the Greek pneúmōn, meaning “lung.” Pneúmōn helps form the Greek word pneumonía, source of the English pneumonia, “inflammation of the lungs with congestion.”
Detailed explanation-4: -pneumon/o (lung, air) pneumat/o (lung) pulmon/o (lung)
Detailed explanation-5: -"winged insect; ‘’ fowl; plover; Pluto; plutocracy; pluvial; pneumo-; pneumonia; pneumonic; pulmonary.