Chapter 2: Other Terms of the Digestive System

Question 1

What means Ascending?

Answer 1

Upward.

Question 2

What means Bowel?

Answer 2

Intestine.

Question 3

What means Deglutition?

Answer 3

Swallowing.

Question 4

What means Dentition?

Answer 4

Condition of the teeth.

Question 5

What means Descending?

Answer 5

Downward.

Question 6

What means Eructation?

Answer 6

Belching or burping.

Question 7

What is a Fissure?

Answer 7

Crack-like sore of the skin.

Question 8

What are Flares or Flare up?

Answer 8

Intervals of intensification of an active disease.

Question 9

What is an Hernia?

Answer 9

The protrusion of an organ or part through the tissues that normally contain it.

Question 10

What means Ligation?

Answer 10

The trying off of blood vessels.

Question 11

What is Mastication?

Answer 11

Chewing.

Question 12

What is Morbid Obesity?

Answer 12

A condition in which excess body fat has an adverse effect on the persons health.

Question 13

What is Occult Blood?

Answer 13

Blood that is not visibly apparent and can only be detected by lab testing.

Question 14

What is Parenteral?

Answer 14

Outside of or bypassing that Digestive System.

Question 15

What is Prolapse?

Answer 15

The slipping or dropping down of an organ or body part from its normal position.

Question 16

What is Reflux?

Answer 16

Stomach contents flowing backward into the esophagus.

Question 17

What is Sphincter?

Answer 17

A ring of muscles that function to close a body opening.

Question 18

What is Stricture?

Answer 18

Abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage.

Question 19

What means Transverse?

Answer 19

Across.

Question 20

What means Ulcer?

Answer 20

Open lesion of the skin or mucous membrane.

Question 21

What are Varices?

Answer 21

Enlarged and swollen veins.