Glossary for Meal symptoms

Medical terms related to Meal symptoms or mentioned in this section include:

• Abdominal pain: Pain in the abdominal area or stomach.
• Abdominal swelling: Swelling or bloating of the abdomen
• Acid reflux: Condition which occurs when the acid reflux into the oesophagus exceeds the normal limit
• Acid regurgitation: The regurgitation of stomach contents
• Cholangitis: bile duct inflammation (cholangitis)
• Cholecystitis: inflammation of the gall bladder.
• Digestive symptoms: Any symptoms affecting the digestive tract.
• Duodenal ulcer: A peptic ulcer is erosion in the lining of the stomach or duodenum (the first part of the small intestine). The word "peptic" refers to pepsin, a stomach enzyme that breaks down proteins. If a peptic ulcer is located in the stomach it is called a gastric ulcer.
• Eating symptoms: Symptoms related to eating.
• Excessive hunger: Inappropriate hunger or overeating.
• Fabry's Disease: An inherited metabolic disorder where phospholipids are deposited mostly in the blood vessels as well as other tissues and organs. Symptoms include skin lesions, small red spots on the abdomen, thighs and scrotum, fever, peripheral edema, hypertension and renal failure. Also called angiokeratoma corporis diffusion, Anderson's syndrome, Anderson-Fabry disease, Morbus Anderson-Fabry, Ruiter-Pompen syndrome or Sweeley-Klionsky disease.
• Food symptoms: Symptoms related to food.
• Heartburn: Chest or digestive pain from reflux of stomach acid
• Hiatal hernia: Hernia of the stomach through the diaphragm muscle.
• Indigestion: Imprecise term for various digestive complaints
• Lactose intolerance: lactose intolerance is the inability to metabolize lactose, a sugar found in milk and other dairy products, because the required enzyme lactase is absent in the intestinal system or its availability is lowered
• Peptic Ulcer: Ulcer on the lining of the stomach or duodenum
• Poor appetite: Loss or reduction in appetite for food
• Rapid gastric emptying: Dumping of undigested food from the stomach into intestine.
• Stomach cancer: Stomach or gastric cancer can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs
• Swallowing difficulty: Difficulty or pain when swallowing
• Vomiting: Vomiting or retching symptoms.

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