Digestive System Anatomy
This organ is in charge of beginning digestion and chews food.
What is the mouth?
This combining form means stomach.
What is gastr/o?
This condition causes difficulty of passing stool.
What is constipation?
What is peri-?
This suffix means hernia, protrusion.
What is -cele?
Muscular tube that is in charge of carrying food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This combining form means liver.
What is hepat/o?
This condition causes stool to be loose or watery.
What is diarrhea?
This prefix means excessive or too much.
What is hypo-?
This suffix means surgical removal.
What is -ectomy?
Organ that produces bile and helps digest fats.
What is the liver?
This combining form means bile.
What is chol/e?
This disease is responsible for causing inflammation in the liver, otherwise referred to as chronic liver disease.
What is cirrhosis?
This prefix means within.
What is endo-?
This suffix means abnormal condition.
What is -iasis?
This organ is in charge of absorbing most of the nutrients from food that is digested.
What is the small intestine?
This combining form means gall bladder.
What is cholecyst/o?
This disease causes the ingestion of gluten to damage to the small intestine.
What is celiac disease?
This prefix means painful, difficult or abnormal.
What is dys-?
This suffix means eating, or swallowing.
What is -phagia?
An organ that is in charge of storing bile before releasing in into the small intestine.
What is the gallbladder?
This combining form means cholangi/o.
What is bile duct?
This disease causes inflammation in the digestive tract.
What is Chrohn’s disease?
This prefix means half.
What is hemi-?
This suffix means softening.
What is -malacia?