FUNDAMENTAL TERMINOLOGY

 FUNDAMENTAL TERMINOLOGY 

1.Anuria-it is the formation and excretion of urine Less than 100ml in 24hours 

2.Bowel incontinence-it is the state inwhich person experience a change in normal Bowel habbit characterstics by involuntary passage of stool

3.colonic irrigation-it is the flushing of large intestine

4.Constipation- it is the infrequent, some time painful passage of hard,dry stool

5.Defication-  it is the process by which the solid waste products of digestion known as faces or stool are eliminated from Bowel

6. Diarrhoea-it is a state in which person experience a change in normal Bowel habbit characterized by frequent passage of loose,fluid,unformed stool

7.Dysuria- it is the difficulty in voiding,

8. Elimination-it is the expulsion of waste from the body by the way of lungs,skin,rectum, and urinary bladder

9.Enuresis- it is the involuntary voiding with no underlying pathophysiologic origin after the age when bladder control usually achieved

10. Flatulence-it is the excessive formation of gases in the stomach

11. Inconvenience- it The inability to control the sphincter which guards the rectum and bladder

12.Malena refers to stool that are very dark and black beacause of the presence of bood

13. Micturition-it is the process of emptying of the urinay bladder

14.Nocturia is voiding During sleeping hours

15. Oligouria-it is the formation and excretion of urine output Less than 500ml in 24hours

16.Polyuria- It is the formation and excretion of urine more than 2500-3000ml 

17.Proctolysis- it is a slow injection of 

a large quantity of fluid into the rectum for absorption into the body

18.Pyuria -urine that contain pus 

19.Regurgitation -it is the backflow of partially digested food  in to stomach

20. Vomiting -it is the expulsion of stomach content through oesophagus and mouth