Chapter 11 Digestive More Complimentary Terms

Question 1

Ascites

Answer 1

Abnormal collection of fluid in the peritoneal cavity

Question 2

Diarrhea

Answer 2

Frequent discharge of liquid stool

Question 3

Dysentery

Answer 3

Disorder that involves inflammation of the intestine associated with diarrhea and abdominal pain

Question 4

Emesis

Answer 4

Expelling matter from the stomach through the mouth

Question 5

Feces

Answer 5

Waste from the digestive tract expelled through the rectum

Question 6

Flatus

Answer 6

Gas in the digestive tract or expelled through the anus

Question 7

Gastric lavage

Answer 7

Washing out of the stomach

Question 8

Gavage

Answer 8

Process of feeding a person through a nasogastric tube

Question 9

Hematemesis

Answer 9

Vomiting of blood

Question 10

Hematochezia

Answer 10

Passage of bloody feces

Question 11

Malabsorption

Answer 11

Impaired digestion or intestinal absorption of nutrients

Question 12

Melena

Answer 12

Black tarry stools that contain digested blood, usually a result of bleeding in the upper GI tract

Question 13

Nausea

Answer 13

Urge to vomit

Question 14

Palpate

Answer 14

To examine by hand, to feel

Question 15

Peristalsis

Answer 15

Involuntary wavelike contractions that propel food along the digestive tract

Question 16

Reflux

Answer 16

Abnormal backward flow

Question 17

Stoma

Answer 17

Surgical opening between an organ and the surface of the body