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| A loss or total lack of appetite. |
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| The audible rumbling sounds of gas moving through the intestinal tract. This is the plural form. The singular form is borborygmus or borborygmos. |
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| A shivering or a shaking. |
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| Shivering or trembling, usually accompanied by fever, also called the chills. |
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| Infrequent or difficult evacuation of feces. This term could be classified as either a symptom or a disease. patients can subjectively relate that they are experiencing the discomfort of constipation, and it can be the diagnosis. |
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| Constipation that continues for a prolonged period of time. |
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| This is a subjective feeling of difficulty swallowing. it occurs when there is impaired progression of the food bolus from the pharynx to the stomach. |
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| An elevation in temperature above normal. this is also called pyrexia. If a patient has a fever, physicians will usually refer to that patient as being febrile. |
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| Gas produced by bacterial action on waste matter in the intestines. Composed primarily of hydrogen sulfide and methane. |
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| the feeling of excessive gas in the colon. |
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| Expressing of excessive gas through the mouth. |
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| Expressing of gas through the anus. |
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| A retrosternal sensation of burning felt in waves and arising upward toward the neck. |
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| The passage of bloody stools. |
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| Melan(o) - is a combining form that means black. The term melena refers both to the passage of dark and pithy stools stained with blood pigment, and black vomit. althought the combining form is spelled with an A, it is important to note that the term melena or melenic stools is spelled with an E. |
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| an unpleasant sensation in the epigastric and abdominal area, which often results in vomiting. |
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| Paleness or the absence of skin color. |
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| Flow in the opposite direction than is normal. |
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| Straining, especially ineffective and painful straining during a blowl movement or urination. |
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| also called emesis. the forcible expulsion of stomach contents through the mouth. |
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| lacking physical strength |
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