Maegan's Quiz #4 Flashcards
What is a metabolic process in which complex substances are broken down by living cells into simple compounds. The process liberates energy for use in work, energy storage, or heat production. Carbon dioxide and water are produced, as well as energy?
Catabolism
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What word pertains to the stomach?
Gastric
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What is the coordinated, rhythmic serial contraction of smooth muscle that forces food through the digestive tract, bile through the bile duct, and urine through the ureters?
Peristalsis
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What is a lack or loss of appetite, resulting in the inability to eat. The condition may result from poorly prepared or unattractive food or surroundings, unfavorable company, or various physical and psychological causes?
Anorexia
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What is the aggregate of all chemical processes that take place in living organisms, resulting in growth, generation of energy, elimination of wastes, and other body functions as they relate to the distribution of nutrients in the blood after digestion?
Metabolism
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What is the surgical removal of the gallbladder, performed to treat cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, and gallbladder cancer. Surgery may be delayed while the acute inflammation is treated?
Cholecystectomy
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What is pertaining to the internal organs in the abdominal cavity?
Visceral
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What is the action or process of vomitting?
Emesis
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What is the word that pertains to the area beneath the tongue?
Sublingual
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What is a drug that is effective against vomiting and nausea?
Antiemetic
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What is pain that results from the activation of nociceptors of the thoracic, pelvic, or abdominal viscera. It is felt as a poorly localized aching or cramping sensation and is often referred to cutaneous sites?
Visceral Pain
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What is the word for of or relating to the sense of smell?
Olfactory
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What is the word that pertains to the sense of hearing and the hearing organs involved?
Auditory
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What is the word that pertains to the act or sense of taste or the organs of taste?
Gustatory
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What is the capacity for sight?
Vision
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