Digestive tract vocab
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| Chewed up food ready for swallowing | Bolus
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| A semifluid mixture of ingested food and digestive secretions found in the stomach and proximal small intestine | Chyme
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| Middle 8 ft or so of the small intestine | Jejunum
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| Remaining 12 ft of small intestine | ileum
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| Largest glandular organ in the body | Liver
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| Large enlongated gland situated behind the stomach and secreting pancreatic juice into the small intestine | Pancreas
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| Pertaining to after a meal | Postprandial
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| Lack of appetite | Anorexia
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| Study of the stomach and the intestines | Gastroenterology
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| An enzyme that breaks down starch | Amylase
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| A hernia of part of the rectum into the vagina | Rectocele
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| Inflammation of the salivary gland | Sialadenitis
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| An accumulation of serous fluid in the peritoneal cavity | Ascites
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| Vomiting | Emesis
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| Pertaining to the cheek | Buccal
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| Examination of the upper portion of the colon | Colonoscopy
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| The creation of a new opening into the colon | Colostomy
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| Pain in a tooth; toothache | Dentalgia
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| Difficulty in digestion; indigestion | Dyspepsia
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| Inflammation of the liver | Hepatitis
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| A condition in which the colon is extremely enlarged | Megacolon
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| Surgical incision into the abdomen | Laparotomy
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| Inflammation of the pancreas | Pancreatitis
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| One who specializes in the study of the anus and the rectum | Proctologist
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| Surgical excision of the gallbladder | Cholecystectomy
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| Vomiting of blood | Hematemesis
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| Pertaining to the gate keeper, the opening between the stomach and the duodenum | Pyloric
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| Pertaining to gastric digestion | Peptic
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| Gas in the stomach of intestines | Flatus
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| Inflammation of the diverticula in the colon | Diverticulitis
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| An instrument used to view the sigmoid | Sigmoidoscope
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