IMPORTANT GASTROINTESTINAL TERMS AND SUFFIXES-LESSON 63

1. Amyl/o means starch-amylase is the enzyme digests starch.
2. Bil/i means bile or gall-bilary is pertaining to bile. Biliary tract consists of liver and gallbladder and the hepatic duct, cystic duct, and the common bile duct that secrete and empty the bile into the duodenum.
3. Bilirubin/o means bilirubin or bile pigment-hyperbilirubinemia is the excessive secretion of bilirubin in the blood.
4. Chol/e means gall or bile-cholelithiasis is the abnormal condition of stone in the bile.
5. Gluc/o means sugar or glucose-glucolysis the process of converting the stored glucose into energy.
6. Glycogen/o means glycogen or animal-glycogenolysis is the breaking down of glycogen.

7. Lith/o means stone-cholecystolithiasis is the abnormal condition of stone in the gallbladder.

8. Lip/o means fat-lipoma is the benign neoplasm of fat tissue consists of mature fat cells.

9. Sial/o means saliva or salivary-sialolith is the stone in the salivary glands.

10. Steat/o means fat-steatocystoma is the abnormal condition of cyst in the sebaceous gland cell walls.

IMPORTANT GASTROINTESTINAL SUFFIXES:

1. –ase means enzyme-lipase is an enzyme digesting fat.

2. –chezia means excretion or defecation of undigested wastes-hematochezia is the excretion of blood in the feces.

3. –iasis means unhealthy or abnormal state. Trichiniasis is an abnormal condition due to ingestion of inadequately cooked pork.

4. –osis means unhealthy or abnormal state. Trichinosis is an abnormal condition due to ingestion of inadequately cooked pork.

5. –prandial means meal. Postprandial is pertaining to after meals.

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