Everything in this flashcard set.
- coeliac
- Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen
- bulimia
- A disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt
- obesity
- More than average fatness
- disease
- An illness that harms the body
- health
- How well your body and mind are doing
- food
- What we eat to get energy and grow
- heart
- Organ that pumps blood around the body
- diet
- The food and drink a person usually has
- coronary
- Obstruction of blood flow in a ___ artery by a blood clot
- nutrition
- Food and nutrients the body needs to grow
- cholesterol
- An animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver
- symptoms
- Any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated (plural)
- treatments
- Care provided to improve a situation (plural)
- osteoporosis
- Abnormal loss of bony tissue resulting in fragile porous bones attributable to a lack of calcium
- information
- A message received and understood
- anorexia
- A prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite
- constipation
- Irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels