Question

Choose a disease either from the Respiratory or the Digestive System and give a brief description of the disease. Include the breakdown of the actual disease name using the prefix, word root and suffix conventions. Then break down the word using the prefix, word root and suffix.

Answer 1

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Hypersensitivity refers to an allergic reaction in which there would be an increased reactivity in response to an allergen.

Pneumonitis where itis refers to formation of inflammation and pneumon in Greek meaning lungs.

This is referred to as an acute form of an illness which would develop almost six hours of a heavy exposure to an antigen that is provoking. There are various symptoms, which are in the form of chills, fever, headache r chest tightness. Symptoms would be resolving within 12 hours of exposure.

Treatment would be to refrain from the provoking antigen, . Also, symptoms could be controlled through corticosteroids. There may be side effects.