gastr/o medical definition
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Congenital Deafblindness Medical Definition of Gastroenterology. Gastroenterology: The medical specialty devoted to the study, diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the digestive system. These disorders may affect the esophagus (swallowing tube), stomach, small intestine, large intestine (colon), rectum, liver, gallbladder, or pancreas.
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levorotatory Medical Definition of levorotatory. : turning toward the left or counterclockwise; especially : rotating the plane of polarization of light to the left—compare dextrorotatory.
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Gastroparesis Gastric Emptying Study is a widely available nuclear medicine test that examines the rate of emptying of solid or liquid material from the stomach. A delay in gastric emptying indicates a diagnosis of gastroparesis. Subjects consume an egg and toast or oatmeal meal along with milk or orange juice.
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Gastroptosis In medicine, gastroptosis is the abnormal downward displacement of the stomach. It is not a life-threatening condition. The condition frequently causes digestive symptoms and constipation, and is much more prominent in women than men. See also. Visceroptosis; References
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gaster the curved, muscular, saclike structure that is an enlargement of the alimentary canal (see digestive system) and lies between the esophagus and the small intestine; called also gaster. (See also Plates.) adj., adj gas´tric. The wall of the stomach consists of four coats: an outer serous coat; a muscular coat, made up of longitudinal, circular, and oblique muscle fibers; a submucous coat; and a mucous coat or membrane forming the inner lining.
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Gastrectomy Gastrectomy is the removal of part or all of the stomach. There are three main types of gastrectomy: 1  partial gastrectomy, removal of the lower half of the stomach.astrectomy is the removal of part or all of the stomach. There are three main types of gastrectomy: 1  partial gastrectomy, removal of the lower half of the stomach.
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Gastroparesis Gastroparesis is a condition in which the stomach muscles do not work properly. As a result, food empties from the stomach very slowly, or not at all. Children with this disorder may feel full all the time, be very nauseous, have pain or vomit undigested food left in the stomach.
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- Print this page. Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is a common condition where acid from the stomach leaks out of the stomach and up into the oesophagus (gullet).
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GASTROPARESIS AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATIONGastroparesis Facts - Anonymous. *Gastroparesis is a condition characterized by impaired transit of food from the stomach. There may also be a total loss of nerve and muscle movement in the stomach and intestines; therefore gravity continues the path for the food through the gastrointestinal organs.
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- Gastrulation is a phase early in the development of animal embryos, during which the morphology of the embryo is dramatically restructured by cell migration. Gastrulation varies in different phyla.
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Human Physiology/Print Version Gastroparesis, or delayed stomach emptying, is a disorder in which, the stomach takes too long to empty its contents. Normally, muscles in the wall of the stomach work to grind food into smaller pieces and push its contents into the first part of the small intestine, the duodenum.
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- Gastrostomy (gastro = stomach, stoma = opening, -y = procedure/method) is the name for the procedure to place a feeding tube into the stomach. The feeding tube is called as the Gastrostomy tube, or commonly the G-tube. There are several types of feeding tubes, the most commonly used are the PEG and the Mic-Key button.
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Gastrulation Hans Spemann (1869 - 1941) Gastrulation means the formation of gut (Greek, gastrula = belly), but has now a more broad sense to to describe the formation of the trilaminar embryo. The epiblast layer, consisting of totipotential cells, derives all 3 embryo layers: endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm. The primitive streak is the visible feature which represents the site of cell migration to form the additional layers.
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- Medical Definition of peptic ulcer. : an ulcer in the wall of the stomach or duodenum resulting from the digestive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane when the latter is rendered susceptible to its action (as from infection with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori or the chronic use of NSAIDs)
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- (source wikipedia) Gastroenteritis (gastr/o meaning stomach; enter meaning small intestine and -itis meaning inflammation.) Gastroenteritis is the medical term. Hope this helps! Gastroenteritis (gastr/o meaning stomach; enter meaning small intestine and -itis meaning inflammation.) gastroenteritis.
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- patients or medical records. For example, the suffix –ectomy means surgical removal, or excision. We know that gastroenterology is the study of the stomach and intestines. gastr- = stomach enter- = intestines -logy = study of. A gastrectomy, then, is the surgical removal, or excision, of the stomach.
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Medical Prefixes to Indicate Front, Behind, Above, Below & Around Hyper- means 'above' or 'over.' It is used in terms such as hypergastric and hypercystic. Hyper- is used in these terms along with the word roots, gastr- for stomach and cyst- for bladder, to let you know that something is 'above the stomach' and 'above the bladder' respectively.
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Gastrulation Gastrulation is defined as a phase early in the embryonic  development of most animals, during which the single-layered  blastula is reorganized into a trilaminar structure …known as the  gastrula. These three germ layers are known as the ectoderm,  mesoderm, and endoderm.
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antrum antral in Medicine. antrum an·trum (ān'trəm) n. pl. an·tra (-trə) A nearly closed cavity or chamber, especially in a bone. The pyloric end of the stomach, partially shut off during digestion from the cardiac end by sphincter muscles in the stomach wall.
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- gastroduodenitis gas·tro·du·o·de·ni·tis (gās'trō-dōō'ō-də-nī'tĭs, -dyōō'-, -dōō-ŏd'n-ī'-, -dyōō-) n. Inflammation of the stomach and the duodenum.
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- Gastrula. A body cavity with a single opening to the outside; it functions as both a digestive system and a circulatory system. 1  Biology Gallery.
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- Gastropathy: Disease of the stomach, as in hypoproteinemic hypertrophic gastropathy. Gastropathy comes from gastro- referring to the stomach + the Greek pathos meaning disease. Pronounced gas-trop-a-the with the emphasis on the trop. Search MedTerms:
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Gastrectomy Gastrectomy is the removal of part or all of the stomach. It’s used to treat stomach problems that aren’t helped by other treatments. Gastrectomy is the removal of part or all of the stomach. There are three main types of gastrectomy: A partial gastrectomy is the removal of a part of the stomach. The lower half is usually removed. A full gastrectomy is the removal of the entire stomach. A sleeve gastrectomy is the removal of the left side of the stomach. This is usually performed as part of a surgery for weight loss.
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Gastric dilatation volvulus Not to be confused with Bloating or Abdominal distension. Gastric dilatation volvulus (also known as twisted stomach, gastric torsion and GDV) is a medical condition in which the stomach becomes overstretched and rotated by excessive gas content.
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- Oste/o and skele-are the medical terminology combining forms meaning bone.Oste/o.f referring to the state of being low in supply or out of something in quantity, the medical term is oligo- . Examples are oligouria (not enough urine production) oligoamniosis, which means low or no amniotic fluid during pregnancy. If using the term to mean without or none, then the term used would be a-or an-.
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Definitions &Translations Flatus is also the medical word for gas generated in the stomach or bowels. These standard definitions do not reflect the fact that a proportion of intestinal gas may be composed of swallowed environmental air, and hence flatus is not totally generated in the stomach or bowels.