Patho Exam #4- Gastrointestinal System
Questions with Correct Answers
What is known as a lack of desire to eat despite physiologic stimuli that would normally
produce hunger? - Answer-anorexia
What is known as a subjective feeling of sickness? - Answer-nausea
What is known as the forceful emptying of the stomach and intestinal contents through
the mouth? - Answer-vomiting
What is known as non productive vomiting? - Answer-retching
What is known as spontaneous vomiting that does not follow nausea or retching? -
Answer-projectile vomiting
What is known as infrequent or difficult defecation? - Answer-constipation
What is known as the presence of loose, watery stools? - Answer-diarrhea
What is known as bulky, pale, smelly stool caused by excess fat in feces? - Answer-
steatorrhea
What are 3 characteristics of steatorrhea? - Answer-bulky, pale, smelly
What is known as difficulty swallowing? - Answer-dysphagia
What is known as delayed gastric emptying in the absence of mechanical gastric outlet
obstruction? - Answer-gastroparesis
Constipation can be what 2 conditions? - Answer-primary condition or secondary
condition
What are 3 examples of how constipation can be a primary condition? - Answer-normal
transit (functional), slow transit, pelvic floor or outlet dysfunction
What are 4 ways of how constipation can be a secondary condition? - Answer-diet,
medications, various disorders, aging
What are 5 clinical manifestations of constipation? - Answer-1. straining with defecation
2. hard stools
3. sensation of incomplete emptying
4. manual maneuvers to facilitate stool evacuation
5. fewer that 3 bowel movements per week
, How do you treat secondary constipation? - Answer-manage the underlying disease
Fewer than how many bowel movements in a week is classified as constipation? -
Answer-3
What 2 things can diarrhea be? - Answer-acute or persistent
What type of diarrhea involves excessive amounts of water or secretions or both in the
intestines? - Answer-large-volume diarrhea
What type of diarrhea involves the volume of feces is not increased, and it usually
results from excessive intestinal motility? - Answer-small-volume diarrhea
What are the 4 major mechanisms of diarrhea? - Answer-osmotic diarrhea, secretory
diarrhea, motility diarrhea, and inflammatory
What can cause osmotic diarrhea? - Answer-lactose intolerance
What can cause secretory diarrhea? - Answer-cholera, gastroenteritis
What can cause motility diarrhea? - Answer-hypermobility
What can cause inflammatory diarrhea? - Answer-bacterial dysentery and inflammatory
bowel disease
What are 3 complications of diarrhea? - Answer-dehydration, electrolyte imbalance,
weight loss
What are the 3 ways diarrhea is treated? - Answer-fluid restoration, antimotillity or water
absorbent medications, and treament of causal factors
What is known as the temporary lack of the normal muscle contractions of the
intestines? - Answer-ileus
What are the 5 clinical manifestations of an ileus? - Answer-1. abdominal bloating and
pain caused by a buildup of gas and liquids
2. N/V
3. severe constipation
4. loss of appetite
5. cramps
People with an ileus might pass what type of stool? - Answer-small and watery
With an ileus, will a patient have hypoactive or hyperactive bowel sounds? - Answer-
hypoactive
Questions with Correct Answers
What is known as a lack of desire to eat despite physiologic stimuli that would normally
produce hunger? - Answer-anorexia
What is known as a subjective feeling of sickness? - Answer-nausea
What is known as the forceful emptying of the stomach and intestinal contents through
the mouth? - Answer-vomiting
What is known as non productive vomiting? - Answer-retching
What is known as spontaneous vomiting that does not follow nausea or retching? -
Answer-projectile vomiting
What is known as infrequent or difficult defecation? - Answer-constipation
What is known as the presence of loose, watery stools? - Answer-diarrhea
What is known as bulky, pale, smelly stool caused by excess fat in feces? - Answer-
steatorrhea
What are 3 characteristics of steatorrhea? - Answer-bulky, pale, smelly
What is known as difficulty swallowing? - Answer-dysphagia
What is known as delayed gastric emptying in the absence of mechanical gastric outlet
obstruction? - Answer-gastroparesis
Constipation can be what 2 conditions? - Answer-primary condition or secondary
condition
What are 3 examples of how constipation can be a primary condition? - Answer-normal
transit (functional), slow transit, pelvic floor or outlet dysfunction
What are 4 ways of how constipation can be a secondary condition? - Answer-diet,
medications, various disorders, aging
What are 5 clinical manifestations of constipation? - Answer-1. straining with defecation
2. hard stools
3. sensation of incomplete emptying
4. manual maneuvers to facilitate stool evacuation
5. fewer that 3 bowel movements per week
, How do you treat secondary constipation? - Answer-manage the underlying disease
Fewer than how many bowel movements in a week is classified as constipation? -
Answer-3
What 2 things can diarrhea be? - Answer-acute or persistent
What type of diarrhea involves excessive amounts of water or secretions or both in the
intestines? - Answer-large-volume diarrhea
What type of diarrhea involves the volume of feces is not increased, and it usually
results from excessive intestinal motility? - Answer-small-volume diarrhea
What are the 4 major mechanisms of diarrhea? - Answer-osmotic diarrhea, secretory
diarrhea, motility diarrhea, and inflammatory
What can cause osmotic diarrhea? - Answer-lactose intolerance
What can cause secretory diarrhea? - Answer-cholera, gastroenteritis
What can cause motility diarrhea? - Answer-hypermobility
What can cause inflammatory diarrhea? - Answer-bacterial dysentery and inflammatory
bowel disease
What are 3 complications of diarrhea? - Answer-dehydration, electrolyte imbalance,
weight loss
What are the 3 ways diarrhea is treated? - Answer-fluid restoration, antimotillity or water
absorbent medications, and treament of causal factors
What is known as the temporary lack of the normal muscle contractions of the
intestines? - Answer-ileus
What are the 5 clinical manifestations of an ileus? - Answer-1. abdominal bloating and
pain caused by a buildup of gas and liquids
2. N/V
3. severe constipation
4. loss of appetite
5. cramps
People with an ileus might pass what type of stool? - Answer-small and watery
With an ileus, will a patient have hypoactive or hyperactive bowel sounds? - Answer-
hypoactive
