Term
| when gastric contents reflux back up into the esophagus, makng esophageal mucosa vulnerable to injury from gastric acid and resulting in _____ |
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| T/F GER in infants is usually self-limiting |
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resolves by the end of the 1st year of life |
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| FTT, bleeding, difficulty with swallowing |
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Term
| thickening of the pylroic spinchter which creates an obstruction |
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Definition
| Hypertonic pyloric stenosis |
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Term
| congenital anaglionic megacoclon, structural anomaly of GI that caused by lack of ganglionic cells in segments of the colon and results in mechanical obstruction |
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