| A | B |
|---|
| Feces | excreted waste products |
| Haustra | pouches in large intestine |
| Chyme | waste products passing through ileocecal valve |
| Flatus | air & the by-products of carbohydrate metabolism |
| Peristalsis | wavelike movement that moves intestinal contents forward |
| Mass peristalsis | wave of powerful muscle contraction that moves over large areas of colon |
| Hemorrhoids | distended veins in rectum |
| Defecation | expulsion of feces from the anus & rectum |
| Constipation | fewer than 3 bowel movements per week |
| Fecal impaction | mass or collection of hardened feces in folds of rectum |
| Diarrhea | passage of liquid feces and increased frequency of defecation |
| Fecal incontinence | loss of voluntary ability to control fecal and gaseous discharges |
| Hypertonic enema solution | Fleets phosphate |
| Hypotonic enema | tap water or soap suds |
| Oil retention enema | softens & lubricates feces and colonic mucosa |
| Ostomy | opening for GI, urinary or respiratory tract onto the skin |
| Ileostomy | opening into the ileum (small bowel) |
| Colostomy | opening into the colon (large bowel) |
| Stoma | the opening made in the abdominal wall by the ostomy |
| Meconium | first fecal material passed by newborns |
| Laxative | medications that stimulate bowel activity |
| Divided colostomy | 2 edges of bowel brought onto abdomen, but separated from each other |
| Loop colostomy | loop of bowel is brought out onto the abdominal wall & supported by plastic bridge |
| Enema | solution introduced into the rectum & large intestines |
