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| the proces or breaking down foods into nutrients that can be absorbed by cells |
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| general term for diseases characterized by polydipsia, polyuria, and polyphagia ("the Poli's: excessive drinking, urination, and eating) |
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| drugs taht promote vomiting |
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| takes place in the mouth by chewing and in the stomach by churing actions |
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| drugs that cause evacuation of the bowel |
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| strong medications used to promote full evacuation of the bowel. Often used before barium enemas, studies or surgeries involving the GI tract, and colonoscopies |
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| melena (or "tarry stools") |
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| the appearance of not-fresh blood in the stool, which resembles black or coffee ground appearance |
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| an abnormal opening between any organ or any cavity walls |
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| takes place in the mouth by the addition of saliva and contineus in the stomach with addition of digestive juices to chemically break down food |
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| passing of digested nutrients into the bloodstream, mostly occurs in small intestines |
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| the conversion of any residual material (liquid or solid)and the removal of that material through defecation |
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| washing out of the stomach. Lavage means the irrigation or washing out of an organ. |
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| inability to swallow or difficulty in swallowing |
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| lesion of the mucous membrane, accompanied by the sloughing or shedding of dead tissue |
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| inflammation of a diverticulum in the intestinal tracts, especially in the colon, causing stagnation, or lack of movement, of feces resulting in pain |
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| a small sac or pouch in the wall of an organ |
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| stoppage or delay in the passage of food through the intestine |
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| masses of veins in the canal that are unnaturally distended and lie just inside or outside the rectum, resulting in pain, itching or bleeding |
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| Irritable Bowel Syndrome (OBS) |
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| abnormally increased motility of the small and large intestines of unknown origin, often resulting in diarrhea, abdominal pain which can be relieved by passing gas or stool (if disease, aka IBD) |
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| formation of presence of gallstones in the gallbladder or common bile duct |
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| stoppage of bile excretion |
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| chronic liver disease characterized by markers degeneration of liver cells |
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| inflammation of the liver |
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| a comlex or enlaged and swollen viens at the lower end of the esophagus that are susceptible to hemorrhage |
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| inflammation of the intestines |
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| chronic type of IBD with ulcers and inflammation |
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| Type of IBD often with fistulas (abnormal openings in tissue walls) |
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| GI distress, usually in infants |
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| abnormal growth in serous membrane often linked to colon cancer |
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| hernia of part of the stomach through the diaphragm |
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| intestinal blocking caused by twisting of the intestine |
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| telescoping of the intestine into itself which causes obstruction |
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| fluid accumulation in the abdominal and peritoneal regions |
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| Gastroesophageal reflux disease(GERD) |
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| condition resulting from a backflow of the stomach contents into the esophagus causing pain and damage to the esophagus |
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| herniation of the stomach, common form: hiatus, or hiatal hernia, aprotursion of a structure through the opening in the diaphragm that allows passage of the esophagus |
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