/.Laxative abuse - Answerelectrolyte imbalance
severe dehydration
dependency
stretched or "lazy" colon
/.balantidium coli - Answerprotozoa that causes GI infection, ingest cysts thru infected
water or food
produces hyalonuridase and creates ulcers in mucosal walls
/.Isospora belli - Answerdiarrhea, steatorrhea, malabsorption, non-bloody diarrhea
/.Ballottement test - Answerpalpating surface of an organ at the surface of the body
**i.e. during pregnancy, palpating the uterus
/.Tibial nerve - Answercan be compressed in the tarsal tunnel, roof of which is flexor
retinaculum
/.Pentoxifylline - Answerused for intermittent claudication and vascular dementia
it changes the shape of RBCs
/.enterovirus 17 - Answernotable cause of hand, foot and mouth disease
/.Menkes syndrome - Answerinborn error where body cannot absorb copper
brittle hair, metaphyseal widening
/.
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