Exam 3: Gastroenterology /Gastrointestinal System

The difference between the diagnosis of gastritis and gastroenteritis is that in gastritis there is inflammation of the stomach and in gastroenteritis there is ________.

Hepatitis D is also known as ________ hepatitis.

By dividing the word gastrointestinal into word parts,we can see that the meaning of the word is ________.

Ova and parasites cause disease in the mouth.

The combining form regurgitat/o- means ________.

What is the difference between mechanical digestion and chemical digestion?

A patient undergoing a gastrectomy is having a surgical removal of the ________.

The combining forms that mean "mouth" are or/o- and ________.

A severe case of constipation is known as obstipation.

Intravenous cholangiography is a radiologic test that uses contrast dye injected into a vein to show a ________ in the bile ducts or gallbladder.

All of the following are ways to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)EXCEPT ________.

Having blood in the stool is ________.

The newspaper reported an epidemic outbreak of viral hepatitis in a children's camp.Although you did not hear the type of hepatitis,you correctly assumed that it was hepatitis A.Explain your reasoning.

Serum hepatitis is another name for hepatitis A.

A patient with polyphagia has ________.

An example of a medication to treat emesis would be dimenhydrinate (Dramamine).

The combining form hepat/o- means "stomach."

Bile from the gallbladder and digestive enzymes from the pancreas go through the common bile duct and enter the ________.

The combining form mastic/o- means "________."

When a physician palpates the abdomen and documents,"No hepatomegaly," this means that there is no ________.