GI key terms.txt

• author "me"
• fileName "GI key terms"
• tags "Key terms"
• description "Chapter. 5 key terms"
• Achalasia
• Abnormal condition characterized by the inability of a muscle, particularly the cardiac sphinter of the stomach

Abnormal condition characterized by absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretiions

Surgical joining of two ducts or blood vessels to allow flow from one to the other

General ill health and malnutrition marked by weakness and emaciation

Oncofetal glycoprotein antigen found in colonic adenocarcinoma

Partial or complete separation of a surgical incision or rupture of a wound care

Rapid gastric emptying causing distention if duodenum

Difficulty swallowing

Protrusion of an internal organ through a disrupted wound or surgical incision

Vomiting blood

Twisting of the bowel on itself, causing intestinal obstruction

Persistant ineffectual spasms of the rectum ir bladder accompanied by the desire to empty the bowel or bladder

Combining form meaning a mouth or opening

Excessive fat in the feces

Decrease in the severity of a disease or any of its symptoms

Sign or symptom specific to a disease or condition

Most common intestinal obstruction decrease in or absence of peristalsis and bowel sounds after abdominal surgery

Blood that is hidden or obscured from view

Space within an artery, vein, intestine or tube such as a needle or catheter

Abnormal black tarry stools containing digest blood

White patch in the mouth or on the tongue

Infolding of one segment of the intestine into the lumen of another segment