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Upper GI Disorders
Lower GI Disorders
Hernias
Other Disorders
100
Mouth
What is chews food?
100
Obesity
What is an ideal body weight greater than 25% - 35%?
100
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
What is a cluster of symptoms without an etiology with periods of constipation alternating with episodes of diarrhea?
100
Truss
What is an apparatus worn to prevent the herniation of the intestines or other organ through an opening in the abdominal wall?
100
Jaundice
What is a symptom, not a disease in which there is a yellowing of the skin due to high bilirubin levels?
200
Stomach
What is holds ingested food and turns it into chyme?
200
Bulimia
What is a psychological disorder characterized by eating as many as 10,000 calories followed by self-induced purging or vomiting?
200
Appendicitis
What is inflammation of a narrow, protrusion located at the tip of the cecum?
200
Irreducible or Incarcerated Hernia
What is a hernia in which the intestines cannot be replaced in the abdominal cavity?
200
Change in bowel habits
What is the most common initial symptom of colon cancer?
300
Large Intestines
What is absorbs water, some electrolytes, and bile acids?
300
Anorexia Nervosa
What is a psychiatric condition characterized by sustained self-starvation?
300
Crohn's Disease
What is an inflammatory bowel disorder with areas of abscess and inflammation with areas of healthy tissue in between?
300
Abdominal Hernia
What is a protrusion of any organ from the cavity that normally confines it?
300
Pancreatitis
What is an inflammation where the organ's own enzymes digests itself and due to alcohol or drug abuse?
400
Small Intestines
What is absorbs nutrients from chyme?
400
Hiatal Hernia
What is a protrusion of part of the stomach into the lower portion of the thorax due to a defect in the diaphragm?
400
Firm, board-like, distended abdomen
What is the common symptom for peritonitis?
400
Strangulated
What is a hernia in which the blood supply to the trapped segment of bowel is cut off leading to gangrene?
400
Cirrhosis
What is irreparable degenerative disorder of the liver due to cell damage?
500
Peristalsis
What is the wavelike contractions of the muscle that propels food to the stomach?
500
Peptic Ulcer Disease
What causes a patient to complain of discomfort after stomach is empty or a meals is skipped rather than after eating?
500
Ulcerative Colitis
What is a chronic inflammation generally limited to the mucosa layers of the colon with no healthy tissue seen between inflamed areas?
500
Inguinal Hernia
What is the hernia most common in men?
500
Hepatitis
What is an inflammation of the liver due to a viral infection?