GIT medical vocabulary

Question 1

endogenous

Answer 1

Having an internal cause or origin.

Question 2

abscesses

Answer 2

A swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus.

Question 3

ischaemia

Answer 3

a restriction in blood supply to tissues

Question 4

intussusception

Answer 4

The inversion of one portion of the intestine within another

Question 5

hernia

Answer 5

part of an organ is displaced and protrudes through the wall of the cavity containing it.

Question 6

Septicaemia

Answer 6

infection of blood from GIT

Question 7

dysentry

Answer 7

inflammation of large intestine

Question 8

typhoid

Answer 8

Common worldwide bacterial disease transmitted by the ingestion of contaminated food or water with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica enterica, serovar Typhi

Question 9

paratyphoid

Answer 9

Paratyphoid fevers are a group of enteric illnesses caused by serotypic strains of the Salmonella genus of bacteria, S. Paratyphi.

Question 10

Listeriosis

Answer 10

Primarily causes infections of the CNS (meningitis, meningoencephalitis, brain abscess, cerebritis) and bacteremia in those who are immunocompromised, as well as gastroenteritis in healthy persons who have ingested a large inoculum of the organism (Listeria monocytogenes)

Question 11

nosocomial

Answer 11

originating in a hospital

Question 12

gangrene

Answer 12

necrotising infection that speads rapidly along fascial planes (associated with Clostridium perfringens)