Digestive System Structure
Adequate oral intake, food breakdown, movement of food through the body.
What is the digestive tract?
Refers to the liver.
What is hepatic?
Observe skin color, texture, scars, striae, rashes, lesions and dilated blood vessels.
What is inspection?
Overgrowth of normal flora often triggered by steroid therapy or antibiotics.
What is candidiasis?
Regurgitation and passage of fluids into the respiratory tract.
What is aspiration?
Circular, wavelike contractions of the muscles of the digestive tract
What is peristalsis?
Ingest old red blood cells and bacteria.
What is Kupffer Cells?
Golden-yellow skin color associated with liver dysfunction or bile obstruction.
What is jaundice?
Lack of appetite
What is anorexia?
Nutrients are delivered directly to the bloodstream.
What is total parenteral nutrition?
Semi-liquid mass
What is chyme?
The liver maintains blood glucose.
What is gluconeogenesis?
Fluid accumulation in the peritoneal cavity.
What is ascites?
What is a hiatal hernia?
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography visualizes pancreatic, hepatic and common bile ducts and ampulla of Vater.
What is an ERCP?
Duodenum, jejunum, ileum
What is the small intestine?
The liver filters the blood and inactivates many chemicals, including most medications.
What is detoxification?
Decreases intestinal motility so that the liquid portion of feces is reabsorbed.
What is morphine?
Resection of the lower part of the esophagus and the upper part of the stomach.
What is esophagogastrectomy?
Sudden, sharp mid-epigastric pain that spreads over entire abdomen; rigid abdomen; absence of bowel sounds; shock.
What is perforation?
Where the large intestine and the small intestine join.
What is the ileocecal valve?
Delivers bile from the liver to the duodenum.
What is the biliary tract?
Increases fecal water content to stimulate bowel evacuation. Treats hepatic encephalopathy.
What is lactulose?
Failure of the lower esophageal muscles and sphincter to relax during swallowing.
What is achalasia?
Used to prevent nausea and vomiting.
Serotonin antagonists - antiemetics