ABBREVIATIONS
RUQ
WHAT IS THE ABBREVIATION FOR THE RIGHT UPPER QUADRANT?
EXCISION OF THE GUMS(TISSUE)
WHAT IS GINGIVECTOMY?
HEMATEMESIS
WHAT IS VOMITING BLOOD?
GINGIVITIS
WHAT IS INFLAMATION OF THE GUMS?
USED TO TREAT CONSIPATION
WHAT ARE LAXATIVES?
ABBREVIATION FOR BODY MASS INDEX
WHAT IS BMI?
CHOLECYSTECTOMY
WHAT IS SURGICAL REMOVAL OF THE GALLBLADDER?
FOUL-SMELLING BREATH
WHAT IS HALITOSIS?
VISUAL EXAM OF THE COLON
WHAT IS COLONOSCOPY?
ANTISPASMODICS
WHAT ARE AGENTS THAT ALLEVIATE MUSCLE SPASMS?
LFT
WHAT IS THE ABBREVIATION FOR LIVER FUNCTION TEST?
REMOVAL OF PART OR ALL OF THE STOMACH
WHAT IS A GASTRECTOMY?
CIRRHOSIS
WHAT IS YELLOWING OF THE SKIN CAUSED BY LIVER DISEASE?
ANOREXIA
WHAT IS WITHOUT AN APPETITE?
ANTIEMETICS
WHAT ARE AGENTS THAT CONTROLNAUSEA AND VOMITING?
Ba
WHAT IS THE ABBREVIATION FOR BARIUM
ENTEROPLASTY
WHAT IS THE SURGICAL REPAIR OF THE SMALL INTERESTINE?
ASCITES
WHAT IS ABNORMAL ACCUMULATION OF FLUID IN THE ABDONINAL CAVITY?
DYSPEPSIA
WHAT IS BAD, PAINFUL, OR DIFFICULT DIGESTION?
USED TO TREAT ACID REFLUX
WHAT IS A HISTAMINE-2 BLOCKER?
NSAID
WHAT IS THE ABBREVIATION FOR NONSTERIODAL ANTI-INFLAMITORY DRUGS?
CHOLEDOCHORRHAPHY
WHAT IS SUTURE OF THE BILE DUCT?
FORM OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE,USUALLY OF THE ILEUM
WHAT IS CROHN DISEASE?
CALCULUS IN A SALIVARY GLAND OR DUCT
WHAT IS SIALOTITH?
USED TO NEUTRALIZE ACID IN THE STOMACH AND HELP RELIEVE GASTRITIS AND ULCER
WHAT ARE ANTACIDS?