DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES AND CONDITONS
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 HEPATITIS A | CAUSED BY "HAV" AND IS HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS AND IS TRANSMITTED BY FECAL-ORAL ROUTE. |
| HEPATITIS B | THIS DIAGNOSIS IS MADE WITH DETECTION OF "HBsAG" and IgM antibodies in the blood. |
| CHOLECYSTITIS | ACUTE OR CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE GALLBLADDER, USUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH OBSTRUCTION OF THE CYSTIC DUCT. |
| ACUTE AND CHRONIC PANCREATITIS | THE DIAGNOSIS IS BASED ON CLINICAL PICTURE AND ELEVATION OF SERUM AMYLASE AND LIPASE LEVELS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE ATTACK. |
| PANCREATIC CANCER | NEOPLASTIC CONDITION THAT NORMALLY OCCURS IN THE HEAD OF THE PANCREAS. MOST OF THE NEOPLASM ARE FROM THE EXOCRINE VS. ENDOCRINE CELLS. |
| PERITONITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE PERITONEUM THAT CAN BE LIFE THREATENING WITH PROMPT MEDICAL TREATMENT. |
| CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER | MENTAL CONFUSION, ESOPHAGEAL VARICES, GYNECOMASTIA, HOBNAIL LIVER, ASCITES, SKIN HEMORRHAGES, TESTICULAR ATROPHY AND EDEMA ARE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF THIS IRREVERSIBLE CONDITION. |
| DIVERTICULITIS | WHEN FECAL MATTER BECOMES TRAPPED IN ONE OR MORE DIVERTICULA AND INFLAMMATION AND INFECTION CAN OCCUR CAUSING THIS DISEASE. |
| ABDOMINAL HERNIA | THE INGUINAL CANAL IS A COMMON SITE FOR THIS CONDITION THAT OCCURS DUE TO A WEAK SPOT IN THE MUSCLES AND MEMBRANES OF THE ABDOMINAL WALL. IF STRANGULATED OCCURS THEN GANGRENE TO THE TRAPPED AREA CAN OCCUR. |
| CROHN DISEASE | ALSO CALLED ILEITIS, REGIONAL ENTERITIS, OR ILEOCOLITIS AND IS A CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE THAT CAN OCCUR ANYWHERE BETWEEN THE MOUTH AND THE ANUS. |
| ULCERATIVE COLITIS | CHRONIC CONDITION OF THE RECTUM AND COLON WITH BLOODY DIARRHEA, CRAMPING, URGENCY TO DEFECATE, MUCOID STOOLS. RISK OF COLON CANCER IS HIGH. |
| GASTRITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE LINING OF THE STOMACH. |
| PEPTIC ULCERS | GASTRIC OR DUODENAL TYPES |
| HELICOBACTER PYLORI BACTERIA | CRUCIAL CAUSAL FACTOR OF PEPTIC ULCERS. |
| MISSING TEETH | THIS LOSS CAN ALTER THE BITE AND CAUSE SERIOUS DENTAL PROBLEMS LATER IN LIFE. |
| TMJ | TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISEASE |
| DENTAL CARIES | OCCURS WHEN THE BACTERIA IN PLAQUE BREAK DOWN THE SUGAR FOUND IN FOOD CAUSING PRODUCED ACID TO DESTROY AND ERODE THE CALCIUM IN THE TOOTH'S ENAMEL. |
| PERIODONTITIS | DESTRUCTIVE GUM AND BONE DISEASE AROUND ONE OR MORE OF THE TEETH. |
| ESOPHAGEAL VARICES | THE SUPERFICIAL VEINS OF BECOME SWOLLEN AND TWISTED AT THE DISTAL END OF THE TUBULAR STRUCTURE BETWEEN THE PHARYNX AND STOMACH. |
| HEMORRHAGE | THIS CAN OCCUR WHEN ESOPHAGEAL VARICES RUPTURE AND IS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. |
| ESOPHAGEAL CANCER | SYMPTOMS INCLUDE DYSPHAGIA, WEIGHT LOSS, RETROSTERNAL DISCOMFORT OR BURNING SENSATION. |
| HIATAL HERNIA | THIS CONDITION IS DUE TO A CONGENITAL DEFECT IN THE DIAPHRAGM OR A WEAKNESS THAT DEVELOPS IN THE DIAPHRAGM, WHICH ALLOWS PART OF THE STOMACH TO PROTRUDE INTO THE THORACIC CAVITY. |
| ACUTE APPENDICITIS | CONDTION CAUSED BY A NARROW POUCH THAT IS ABOUT 3.5 INCHES LONG THAT EXTENDS FROM THE CECUM BECOMING INFLAMMED. |
| GASTROENTERITIS | ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH AND THE INTESTINES (USUALLY THE SMALL INTESTINES). |
| HEMORRHOIDS | THE VEINS OF THE RECTAL AND ANAL AREA BECOME VARICOSE, SWOLLEN, AND TENDER AS A RESULT OF BLOCKAGE. |
| CANCER OF THE LIVER | HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA |
| ANOREXIA NERVOSA | SELF-IMPOSED STARVATION LEADING TO DISTORTED BODY AND A COMPULSION TO BE THIN. |
| BULIMIA | CHARACTERIZED BY "BINGE" EATING FOLLOWED BY SELF-INDUCED VOMITING OR PURGING, USUALLY IN SECRET. |
| MOTION SICKNESS | DRAMAMINE HELPS TO PREVENT AND TREAT THIS CONDITION. |
| FOOD POISONING | CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS, SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS, AND STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ARE BACTERIAL CAUSES. |
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