A respiratory diagnosis is only frightening until you cut it up. Click between the letters to drop slash marks where the word parts divide, then match each part to what it means, then decide which of the three buckets the disease belongs in — a narrowed airway, a filled alveolus, or something sitting in the pleural space. Wrong answers here are worth more than right ones: they are where atel/o, pneum/o and -ptysis stop tricking you.
Step 1 · Split the word
Meanings — some of these belong to other word parts