Med term quiz 2 sg

The digestive system performs 4 functions;

Ingestion, digestive, absorption, elimination

Ingestion

Food material taken into mouth

Digestion

Food is broken down, mechanically and chemically as it travels through the gastrointestinal tract

Small intestine

Villi in the lining of the small intestine

Where is bile produced?

Liver

What other functions are from the liver?

Maintain normal blood glucose levels, manufactures blood proteins necessary for clotting, removes bilirubin (a pigment in bile)

Anorexia

Lack of appetite

Dysphagia

Difficulty in swallowing

Amylase

Enzyme secreted by the pancreas and salivary glands to digest starch

bilirubin

Pigment released by the liver in bile

bile

Digestive juice made in the liver and stored In the gallbladder; breaks up large fat globules; composed of bile pigments,cholesterol, and bile salts

Common bile duct

Carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the duodenum

Gallbladder

Small sac under the liver; stores bile

Insulin

Hormone produced by endocrine cells of the pancreas; transports sugar from the blood into cells and stimulates glycogen formation

by the liver

Lipase

Pancreatic enzyme needed to digest fats

Rugae

Ridges on the hard palate and the wall of the stomach

Liver

Secretes bile, stores sugar, produces blood proteins

Crohn disease

Chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract

Diverticulosis

Abnormal side pockets in the intestinal wall

Cholelithiasis

Gall stone in the gallbladder

AFP

Alpha-fetoprotein, tumor marker for liver cancer

CD

Celiac disease

GERD

Gastroesophageal reflux disease

HBV

Hepatitis b virus

IBD

Inflammatory bowel disease

LFTs

Liver function tests

-ase

Enzyme

-centesis

Puncture to remove fluid

-chezia

Defecation, elimination of wastes

-ectomy

Removal, excision, resection

-emisis

Vomiting

-emia

Blood condition

-genesis

Producing, forming

-graphs

Process of recording

-iasis

Abnormal condition

-lysis

Breakdown, separation, destruction, loosening

-megaly

Enlargement

-orexia

Appetite

-pathy

Disease, emotion

-pepsia

Digestion

-phagia

Eating, swallowing

-prandial

Meal

-plasty

Surgical repair

-ptosis

Droop, sag, prolapse, fall

-ptysis

Spitting

-rrhage

Bursting forth (of blood)

-rrhagia

Bursting forth (of blood)

-rrhaphy

Suture

-rrhea

Flow, discharge

-scopy

Visual examination

-spasm

Sudden contraction of muscles

-stasis

Stop, control, place

-stenosis

Tightening, stricture

-stomy

New opening (to form a mouth)

-tomy

Process of cutting

-tresia

Opening

NASH

Non alcoholic steatohepatitis

PUD

Peptic ulcer disease

TPN

Total parental nutrition

-prandial

Meal

-iasis

Abnormal condition

-chezia

Defecation, elimination, of wastes

-ase

Enzyme