Assessing patient elimination
To pass solid waste from your body.
Defecate (v)
A very small amount of liquid.
Drop (n)
To encourage or force.
Push (v)
An excessive loss of body fluid.
Dehydration (n)
Always doing things or moving around
a lot.
Active (v)
Unable to control the passing of liquid
or solid waste from your body
Incontinent (adj)
Not pressed tightly together in a solid
mass.
Loose (adj)
When someone is unable to get rid of
solid waste easily out of their body.
Constipation (n)
Very small living things that
sometimes cause disease.
Bacteria (n)
To limit the amount of food that you
eat, in order to become thinner.
Diet (v)
Liquid waste that comes out of your
body when you go to the toilet
Urine (n)
The organs in your body through which
urine is removed.
Waterworks (n pl)
A piece of solid waste from your
bowels.
Stool (n)
A device that transports substances
directly into your veins
Intravenous drip (n
phr)
A medicine or something that you eat
that makes your bowels empty easily.
Laxative (n)
The part inside your body that carries
solid waste food away from your
stomach and out of your body.
Bowel (n)
The act of getting rid of solid waste
from your body.
Bowel movement (n)
British English spoken to urinate
(= make liquid waste flow out of your
body) – can be used by or to children
Wee (n)
A plant or animal that lives on or in
another plant or animal and gets food
from it.
Parasite (n)
Stopping and starting often and for
short periods.
Intermittent (adj)
Solid waste material that comes out
when you empty your bowels, used
especially by doctors and nurses.
Motion (n)
Full of liquid, gas, food etc, so that you
look or feel much larger than normal.
Bloated (adj)
An illness in which waste from your
bowels is very watery [= diarrhea
American English]
Diarrhoea (n)
A mixture of clean water, salt and
sugar that can be used to treat
patients with moderate dehydration.
Rehydration salts (n)
A bad pain in your muscles that
makes it difficult to move.
Cramp (n)