If I haven't been brushing my teeth often enough, I may end up with bleeding from my gums, a condition called

 hepatitis
colitis
 gingivitis
  stomatitis
  proctitis

A patient has had a diagnosis of colon cancer and will need surgical removal of the colon.  She will end up with a permanent hole in her abdomen for drainage into a bag.  The permanent opening is called a

  megacolon
  colitis
  colonoscopy
  colostomy
  colectomy

You have been having chronic pains in your upper abdomen, and your family physician refers you to a specialist in diseases of the digestive tract called a

  cardiologist
  pulmonologist
  neurologist
  gastroenterologist
  proctologist

You have just been diagnosed as having an enlarged liver.  The doctor describes it as
  megacolon
  hepatomegaly
  macrostomia
  hepatitis
  gastroenteritis

You have taken your friend to the emergency room with severe lower back pain and blood in his urine.  After examination and lab tests, the physician reports that your friend has an inflammation of his kidneys and makes a diagnosis of

  hepatitis
  cystitis
  proctitis
  nephritis
  orchiditis

Your friend who is a long distance runner is told by his physician that he has an enlarged heart, but that this can be a normal finding in well conditioned athletes.  The doctor writes on his chart that your friend has

 hepatomegaly
 cardiomegaly
 megacolon
 macrostomia
  myocarditis 

Your mother is having her uterus surgically removed along with her ovaries.  Removal of ovaries is called

   hysterectomy
   orchidectomy
  appendectomy
  oophorectomy
  gastrectomy

A prostitute has become sterile due to chronic inflammation of her uterine tubes from frequent infection with sexually transmitted diseases. This tubal inflammation is called

  endometritis
  perimetritis
  salpingitis
  hepatitis
  proctitis

A patient with epilepsy has had a procedure performed that records brain electrical activity.  This procedure is called 

electrocardiography
 electroencephalography
 electromyography
 electrogastrography
 electrophoresis

A female patient has a special X-ray procedure of the breasts performed.  The X-ray image is called a 

mammoplasty
 mammoplasia
 mammography
 mastectomy
 mammogram

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