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Breaks food apart by the action of the teeth, mostens and lubricates food with saliva, food formed into a bolus.
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Mouth
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Serve as organs of mastication.
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Teeth
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Is common passageway for both respiration and digestion; muscular constrictions move the bolus into the esophagus.
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Pharynx
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Moves the food by peristalsis down the esophagus into the stomach.
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Esophagus
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Reduces food to digestible state; converts the food into a semi-liquid form.
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Stomach
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Digests and absorbs food, nutrients absorbed into tiny capillaries and lymph vessels in the walls of the small intestine and transmitted to body cells by the circulatory system.
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Small intestine
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Removes water from the fecal material, stores, an then eliminates waste from the body via the rectum and anus.
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Large intestine
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Secrete saliva to moisten and lubricate food.
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Salivary glands
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Changes glucose to glycogen and stores it until needed; changes glycogen back to glucose; desaturates fats, assists in protein catabolism; manufactures bile, fibrinogen, prothrombin, heparin, and blood proteins; stores vitamins; produces heat; and detoxifies substances.
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Liver
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Stores and concentrates bile.
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Gallbladder
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Secretes pancreatic juice into the small intestine, contains cells that produce digestive enzymes, secretes insulin and glucagon.
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Pancreas
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absorpt
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to suck in
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-ion
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process
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amyl
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starch
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-ase
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enzyme
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anabol
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a building up
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-ism
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condition
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an-
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lack of
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-orexia
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appetite
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append
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appendix
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-ectomy
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surgical excision
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-itis
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inflammation
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bili
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gall, bile
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-ary
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pertaining to
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bucc
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cheek
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-al
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pertaining to
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catabol
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a casting down
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celi
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abdomen, belly
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-ac
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pertaining to
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cheil
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lip
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chole
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gall, bile
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cyst
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bladder
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-ectomy
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surgical excision
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choledocho
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common bile duct
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cirrh
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orange-yellow
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col
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colon
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colon
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colon
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-ic
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pertaining to
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-stomy
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new opening
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constipat
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to press together
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-ion
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process
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defecat
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to remove dregs
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dent
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tooth
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-algia
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pain, ache
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-ist
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one who specializes
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diverticul
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diverticula
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duoden
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duodenum
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dys-
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difficult
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enter
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intestine
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-pepsia
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to digest
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-phagia
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to eat, to swallow
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eme
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to vomit
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-sis
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condition
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-ic
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pertaining to
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epi-
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above
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eructat
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a breaking out
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esophage
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esophagus
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fibr
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fibrous tissue
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-oma
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tumor
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gingiv
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gums
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glosso
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tongue
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glyco
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sweet, sugar
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-genesis
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formation, produce
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halit
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breath
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hemat
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blood
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-emesis
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vomiting
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hemorrh
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vein liable to bleed
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-oid
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resemble
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hepat
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lier
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hernio
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hernia
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-rraphy
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suture
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alimentat
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nourishment
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ile
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ileum
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labi
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lip
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laparo
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abdomen
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laxat
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to loosen
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-ive
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nature of, quality of
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lingu
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tongue
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lipo
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fat
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-lysis
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destruction, to separate
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absorpt
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to suck in
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masticat
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to chew
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mes
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middle
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pancreat
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pancreas
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paralyt
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to disable; paralysis
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-us
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pertaining to
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pept
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to digest
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odont
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tooth
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-stalsis
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contraction
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pharynge
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pharynx
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pilo
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hair
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nid
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nest
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cyst
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sac
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prandi
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meal
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procto
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anus, rectum
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pylor
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pylorus, gatekeeper
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-cele
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hernia
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sial
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saliva
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aden
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gland
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sigmoido
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sigmoid
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spleno
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spleen
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-megaly
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enlargement, large
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stomat
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mouth
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sub-
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below
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vermi
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worm
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-form
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shape
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volvul
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to roll
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ac
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before meals (ante cibum)
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A/G
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albumin/globulin (ratio)
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Ba
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barium
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BAC
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blood alcohol concentration
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BE
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barium enema
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BM
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bowel movement
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BRP
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bathroom privileges
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BS
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bowel sounds
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CEA
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carcinoembryonic antigen
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CHO
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carbohydrate
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chol
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cholesterol
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CUC
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chronic ulcerative colitis
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E. coli
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Escherichia coli
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ERCP
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endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
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GB
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gall bladder
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GERD
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gastroesophageal reflux disease
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GGT
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gamma-glutamyl transferase
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GI
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gastrointestinal
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GTT
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glucose tolerance tract
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HAA
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hepatitis-associated antigen
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HAV
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hepatitis A virus
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HBIG
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hepatitis B immune globulin
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HBV
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hepatitis B virus
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HCl
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hydrochloric acid
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IBS
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irritable bowel syndrome
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LES
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lower esophageal sphincter
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MALT
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mucosal-associated lymphoid type (lymphoma)
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NANBH
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non-A, non-B hepatitis virus
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NG
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nasogastric (tube)
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NH4
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ammonia
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NPO, npo
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nothing by mouth
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N&V
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nausea and vomiting
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O&P
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ova and parasites
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pc
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after meals (post cibum)
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PEG
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percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
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PP
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postprandial (after meals)
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PUD
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peptic ulcer disease
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RDA
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recommended dietary or daily allowance
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TPN
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total parenteral nutrition
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UGI
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upper gastrointestinal
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