Medical Terminology ch 10.txt

EMOTIONAL EATING DISORDER IN WHICH THE PATIENT AVOIDS FOOD DUE TO A COMPULSION TO BECOME THIN IN APPEARENCE

A DRUG THAT PREVENTS OR STOPS THE VOMITING REFLEX

A DRUG THST REDUCES PERISTALSISACTIVITY IN THE GI TRACT

INABILITY TO SWALLOW LITERALLY WITHOUT EATING

SURGICAL REMOVAL OF THE APPENDIX

AN ACCUMILAITON OF FLUID WITHIN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY THAT PRODUCES AN ENLARGED ABDOMEN

AGENT THAT STIMULATES STRONG WAVES OF PERISTALSIS OF THE COLON

INFLAMMATION OF THE LIP

PROCEDURE OF SUTURING A LIP

SURGICAL REMOVAL OF THE GALLBLADDER

INFLAMMATION OF THE GALLBLADDER, USUALLY CAUSED BY GALLSTONES LODGED WITHIN IT

X-RAY IMAGE OR CHOLECYSTOGRAM OF THE GALLBLADDER

PRESENCE OF STONES WITHIN THE COMMON

SURGERY THAT INVOLVES THE REMOVAL OF ONE OR MORE OBSTRUCTIVE GALLSTONES FROM THE COMMON BILE DUCTS

GENERALIZED CONDITION OF CONDITION OF STONES LODGED WITHIN THE GALLBLADDER OR BILE DUCTS

CHRONIC, PROGRESSIVE LIVER DISEASE CHARACTERIZED BY THE GRADUAL LOSS OF LIVER CELLS AND THEIR REPLACMENT BY FAT AND OTHER FORMS OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE

SURGICAL REMOVAL OF A SEGMENT OF THE COLON

INFLAMMATION OF THE COLON; IF CHRONIC BLEEDING OF THE COLON WALL PRODUCES BLOODY DIARRHIA THE CONDITON IS CALLED ULCERATIVE COLITIS

CANCER OF THE COLON AND THE RECTUM OFTEN ARISES AS A POLYUP BECOMES AN AGGRESSIVE METASTIC TUMOR

SURGICAL CREATION OF AN OPENING IN THE COLON TO SERVE AS AN ARTIFICIAL ANUS

CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF ANY PART OF THE GI TRACT THAT INVOLVES ULCERATIONS, SCAR TISSUE FORMATION, AND THICKENING ADHESIONS OF THE ORGANWALL, ALSO KNOWN AS REGIONAL ILEITIS

PRESENCE OF SMALL POUCHES CALLED DIVERTICULA ON THE WALL OF THE COLON, OFTEN WITHOUT SYMPTOMS OR WITH MILD BOWEL DISCOMFORT

ULCER OR EROSION IN THE WALL OF THE DUODENUM OF THE SMALL INTESTINE

ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF THE GI TRACT THAT IS CAUSED BY BACTERIA PROTOZOA OR CHEMICAL IRRITANTS

COMMONLY CALLED INDEGESTION, IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY STOMACH OR ESOPHAGEAL PAIN OR DISCOMFORT

DIFFICULT IN SWALLOWING

INFLAMMATION OF THE SMALL OR LARGE INTESTINE

CLINICAL LAB TEST PERFORMED TO DETECT BLOOD FECES, "FOBT"

PRECENCE OF GAS OR AIR IN THE GI TRACT

SURGICAL REMOVAL OF PART OF THE STOMACH OR IN EXTREME CASES THE ENTIRE ORGAN

ABNORMAL STRETCHING OF THE STOMACH

AGGRESSIVE METASTATIC CANCER ARISING FROM CELLS LINING THE STOMACH KNOWN AS STOMACH CANCER

CLEANSING PROCEDURE IN WHICH THE STOMACH IS IRRIGATED WITH A PRESCRIBED SOLUTION

ULCER OR EROSION IN THE WALL OF THE STOMACH

INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH

SYMPTOM OF STOMACH PAIN ALSO KNOWN AS GASTRALGIA

INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH AND SMALL INTESTINE

RECURRING REFLUX OF STOMACH CONTENTS INTO THE ESOPHAGUS IS A CONDITION THAT IS ABBREVIATED GERD

SOFTENING OF THE STOMACH WALL

PROCESS OF FEEDING A PATIENT THROUGH A TUBE INSERTED INTO THE NOSE THAT EXTENDS THROUGH THE ESOPHAGUS TO ENTER THE STOMACH

INFECTION BY THE INTESTINAL PROTOZOA GIARDIA INTESTINLIS OR GIARDIA LAMBLIA PRODUCES SYMPTOMS OF DIARRHEA, CRAMPS NAUSEA AND VOMITING

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES THAT PROVIDE RADIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION OF THE GI TRACT USUALLY BY MEANS OF BARIUM SWALLOW BARIUM SHAKE OR BARIUM MEAL

SURGICAL REMOVAL OF DISEASED TISSUE IN THE GUMS OR GINGIVA

INFLAMMATION OF THE TONGUE OFTEN CAUSED BY EXPOSURE TO ALLERGENS TOXINS EXTREME HEAT OR COLD

REPAIR OF THE TONGUE

VOMITING BLOOD A SIGN OF A SEVERE DIGESTIVE DISORDER

SURGICAL REMOVAL OF HEMORHOIDS

VIRAL INDUCED INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER THE FIVE KNOWN FORMS ARE CATEGORIZED WITH LETTERS A-E

TUMOR ARISING FROM CELLS WITHIN THE LIVER ALSO CALLED HEPATOCELLUAR CARCINOMA OR HCC

ABNORMAL ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIVER

PROTRUSION OF THE CARDIAC PORTION OF THE STOMACH THROUGH THE HIATUS OF THE DIAPHRAM TO ENTER THE THORATIC CAVITY

SURGICAL CREATION OF AN OPENING THROUGH THE ABDOMINAL WALL AND INTO THE ILEUM OF THE SMALL INTESTINE TO ESTABLISH AN ALTERNATIVE ANUS FOR THE PASSAGE OF FECES

GENERAL TERM THAT INCLUDES THE CONDITONS ULCERATIVE COLITIS AND CROHN'S DISEASE ABBREVIATED "IBD"

CONDITON OF INFOLDING OF A SEGMENT OF THE SMALL INTESTINE WITHIN ANOTHER SEGMENT

SURGICAL PROCEDURE THAT INVOLVES AN INCISION THROUGH THE ABDOMINAL WALL OFTEN FROM THE BASE OF THE STERNUM TO THE PUBIC BONE

DISORDER THAT IS CHARACTERIZED BY DIFFICULTY IN ABSORBING ONE OR MORE NUTRIENTS

INFLAMMATION OF ONE OR BOTH PARATOID GLANDS IF CAUSED BY A VIRUS USUALLY CALLED MUMPS

EROSION INTO THE INNER WALL OF AN ORGAN ALONG THE GI TRACT

INFLAMMATION IF THE EXTENSIVE MEMBRANE THAT LINES THE INNER WALL OF THE ABDOMINOPELVIC CAVITY AND COVERS MOST OF ITS ORGANS

SURGICAL REMOVAL OF POLYPS

CONDITION OF POLYPS USUALLY OCCURING IN THE COLON OR RECTUM OF THE LARGE INTESTINE WHERE IT INREASES THE RISK FOR COLORECTAL CANCER

INFLAMMATION OF THE ANUS AND USUALLY THE RECTUM AS WELL

PROLAPSE OF THE RECTUM

SURGICAL REPAIR OF THE PYLORUS REGION OF THE STOMACH WHICH MAY INCLUDE REPAIR OF THE PYLORIC VALVE

ABNORMAL LEVELS OF FAT IN THE FECES LITERALLY DISCHARGE OF FAT

TEST THAT INCLUDES OBTAINING STOOL FECAL SAMPLES USING THE SAMPLES TO GROW MICROORGANISIMS IN CULTURE AND IDENTIFYING THE MICROORGANISMS "SCS"

SEVERE TWISTING OF THE INTESTINE THAT LEADS TO OBSTRUCTION