Chapter 5 Word List

What term means "pertaining to the digestive tract"?

• Digestion

• Ascites

• Alimentary

• Duodenal

What term means "accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity"?

• Ascites

• Dysentery

• Pepsinogen

• Hepatitis

What term means "bad breath"?

• Dyspepsia

• Dysentery

• Halitosis

• Mastication

What term means "to chew"?

• Mastication

• Deglutition

• Peristalsis

• Alimentary

What term means "to swallow"?

• Mastication

• Deglutition

• Peristalsis

• Dyspepsia

What term means "difficulty swallowing"?

• Dysphagia

• Dysetnery

• Halitosis

• Deglutition

What term means "formation of glucose from non-carbohydrate sources"?

• Deglutition

• Gluconeogenesis

• Pepsinogen

• Intussesception

What term means "passage of red, bloody stool"?

• Hemochromatosis

• Hematochezia

• Hepatitis

• Intussescpetion

What term means "inflammation of the liver"?

• Hepatitis

• Halitosis

• Dysphagia

• Dysentery

What term means "dangerously high levels of iron in the body"?

• Hematochezia

• Hemochromatosis

• Halitosis

• Ascites