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Bowel Elimination

TermDefinition
Anal Sphincters ring shaped bands of muscles in the anus.
Appliance collection bag over a stoma.
Colonography inspection of the colon using a CT scan instead of a colonoscope.
Colonoscopy visual inspection of the entire interior colon using a flexible lighted endoscope.
Colostomy opening to some portion of the colon.
Constipation condition in which dry, hard stool is difficult to pass.
Continent Ostomy surgically created opening in which liquid stool or urine is removed by siphoning.
Defecation bowel elimination.
Diarrhea urgent passage of watery stools.
Enema introduction to a solution into the rectum.
Enterostomal Therapist a nurse certified in caring for ostomies and related skin problems.
Excoriation chemical skin injury.
Fecal Impaction condition in which it is impossible to pass feces voluntarily.
Fecal Incontinence inability to control the elimination of stool.
Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) self-collected screening test for colorectal disorders to detect heme, an iron compound in blood within stool.
Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) alternative to FOBT, more specific than an FOBT because it uses antibodies to detect globin, a protein removed from heme, which is present exclusively in the lower intestine.
Feces stool.
Flatulence an excessive accumulation of intestinal gas.
Flatus an excessive accumulation of intestinal gas.
Gastrocolic Reflex increased peristaltic activity.
Globin protein removed from heme that is present exclusively in the lower intestine.
Heme iron compound in blood.
Ileostomy surgically created opening to the ileum.
Melena blood in stool.
Ostomy surgically created opening.
Peristalsis rhythmic contractions of gastrointestinal smooth muscle.
Retention Enema solution held temporarily in the large intestine.
Sigmoidoscopy visual endoscopic inspection limited to the sigmoid portion of the large intestine.
Stoma entrance to a surgically created opening.
Suppository medicated oval- or cone shaped mass.
Valsalva Maneuver act of closing the glottis and contracting the pelvic and abdominal muscles to increase abdominal pressure.
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