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111Anesthesia — Loss of feeling or awareness. A local anesthetic causes loss of feeling in a part of the body. A general anesthetic puts the person to sleep. * * * 1. Loss of sensation resulting from pharmacologic depression of nerve function or from neurologic… …
112Peristalsis — is the rhythmic contraction of smooth muscles to propel contents through the digestive tract. The word is derived from New Latin and comes from the Greek peristaltikos , peristaltic, from peristellein , to wrap around, and stellein , to place. In …
113Anal–oral sex — Anal–oral sex, also referred to or described as anal–oral contact or anilingus (from anus + lingus (Latin Lingere :to lick)), also incorrectly spelled analingus, is a form of oral sex involving contact between the anus or perineum of one person… …
114priapulid — ▪ invertebrate (phylum Priapulida), any of some 15 species of predatory, marine, mud inhabiting, unsegmented worms. Once considered a class of the former phylum Aschelminthes or placed with echiuran and sipunculan worms in the former phylum …
115Helminth — A worm classified as a parasite. (A parasite is a disease causing organism that lives on or in a human or another animal and derives its nourishment from its host.) Lice are examples of parasites that live on humans; bacteria and viruses are… …
116coloproctostomy — Establishment of a communication between the rectum and a discontinuous segment of the colon. SYN: colorectostomy. [colo + G. proktos, anus (rectum), + stoma, mouth] * * * co·lo·proc·tos·to·my .kō lə .präk täs tə mē, .käl ə n …
117alimentary canal — n the tubular passage that extends from mouth to anus, functions in digestion and absorption of food and elimination of residual waste, and includes the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine * * * the long… …
118Gastrointestinal tract — Digestive system diagram The digestive tract (also known as the alimentary canal) is the system of organs within multicellular animals that takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste. The major… …
119Stoma (medicine) — A stoma (Greek pl. stomata) is an opening (a direct translation of the Koine Greek would be mouth ), either natural or surgically created, which connects a portion of the body cavity to the outside environment. Surgical procedures in which… …
120Human nose — in profile Illustration of nose diagram …
