Med Term-Digestive System

What is the digestive system?

• A system to take out the bad stuff that's in your body

• A system where a certain group of organs work together to convert food into energy to feed the body

• A system where certain organs in the body digest the food you eat

• A system that the organs in the stomach make food for the body to digest.

Tags

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Where does the digestive system start?

• The liver

• The throat

• The stomach

• The mouth

This is a disease in which the acid and enzymes in the stomach flow backward from the stomach into the esophagus causing inflammation

• Colitis

• Cholelithiasis

• Hiatal Hernia

• GERD

The suffix -ostomy means:

• vomiting

• surgical removal

• incision into

• Surgical creation of an opening

Buccal means

• Pertaining to buttocks

• Pertaining to cheeks

• Pertaining to abdomen

• Pertaining to anus

Cholecystectomy means

• Surgical removal of unrinary bladder

• Surgical removal of gall bladder

• Surgical removal of large intestine

• Incision into the large intestine

Dentalgia means:

• Dementia

• Duodenal ulcer

• tooth pain

• Extracting a tooth

colostomy means

• Surgical removal of colon

• Surgical removal of gallbladder

• Stone in salivary ducts

• New opening into colon

Esophagectasis means:

• Surgical removal of esophagus

• Dilation of esophagus

• New opening to esophagus

• Inflammation of esophagus

Nasogastric means:

• inflammation of intestine

• pertaining to nose & stomach

• pertaining to intestine

• pertaining to duodenum