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Digestive System Pathological Vocabulary — Unit test

Question 11 • IASD Health Concepts, Q2, 25-26, Cadile

How would a student spell the term that means “swallowing excess amounts of air”?

Answer
A
aerophagia
B
arophagea
C
hematemesis
D
heamatemesis

Explanation

The term for swallowing excess amounts of air is aerophagia. “Aero-” refers to air, and “-phagia” refers to eating or swallowing. The correct choice is aerophagia; hematemesis means vomiting blood.

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