What are, transportation of waste products, synthesis of vitamins by bacteria, absorption of water, absorption of a few remaining nutrients.
100
What the medical abbreviation NPO stands for.
What is nothing by mouth.
100
An open sore in the digestive tract.
What is an ulcer?
100
The medical term for the ball of food at the back of the pharynx ready for swallowing.
What is bolus?
200
The bony structure that forms the roof of the mouth.
What is the hard palate?
200
The place in which most digestion and absorption of nutrients takes place.
What is the small intestine?
200
This type of diet would be ordered for someone who cannot chew food well.
What is soft or mechanically soft?
200
The three best, non-habit-forming ways to treat constipation.
What is to eat a high fiber diet, increase fluid intake, and exercise?
200
The term for food when it is converted into a semi-fluid material in the stomach.
What is chyme?
300
If a person has diabetes, this organ is not functioning properly.
What is the pancreas?
300
The folds in the mucus membrane lining of the stomach.
What are rugae?
300
Three things you should check before serving a resident his or her tray.
What is the name, room, type of diet, correct food on tray, allow him or her to wash his or her hands and face, that they are appropriately positioned, etc.
300
Inflammation of the outpouchings located in the large intestine.
What is diverticulitis?
300
The medical term for loss of appetite.
What is anorexia?
400
The function of bile.
What is to emulsify fats and make them water soluble?
400
The three types of salivary glands and where they are.
What are the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual?
400
How many cc's are in one ounce.
What is 30?
400
The disorder that is treated by the removal of the gallbladder.
What is cholecystitis or cholelithiasis?
400
The medical term for chewing food.
What is mastication?
500
These are finger-like projections present in the small intestine and are responsible for absorption of nutrients.
What are villi?
500
This enzyme breaks down carbohydrates.
What is amylase?
500
Why thickened liquids are ordered for a person who has dysphagia.
Because thin liquids are much easier to aspirate. They go down quickly, before the patient can think about what he or she is doing.
500
The term used to describe pain that is felt in a spot different than where the injury is.
What is referred pain?
500
The rhythmic, wave-like movement of the muscles of the alimentary canal.