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A genus of gram-negative bacilli of the family Enterobacteriaceae that occurs in water, soil, and in the intestines of humans and animals. Species of enterobacter are an important cause of opportunistic infections and hospital-acquired infections, many of which may be resistant to multiple antibiotics.  

An antigen derived from the intestines.  

A broad term for bacilli present in the intestinal tract. Included are gram-negative non- spore forming facultatively anaerobic bacilli such as Escherichia, Shigella, Salmonella, Klebsiella, and Yersinia. They may be present in the intestines of vertebrates as normal flora or pathogens.  

A means of providing nutrition for a patient unable to consume food normally. The patient may have difficulty with chewing or swallowing or an oral, pharyngeal, or esophageal deformity. The patient is fed an appropriate nutritional formula through a tube passed into the stomach or duodenum from the nasal passage (nasogastric or nasoduodenal tube) or…

Pain in the intestines; intestinal cramps or colic.  

Any psychoactive drug similar in chemical structure to MDMA, the recreational drug also known as ecstasy. Members of this drug class are derived from l-(l,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-2-butanamine.  

A mental state marked by excessive and irrational terror.  

An enzyme present in muscle tissue that converts phosphoglyceric acid to phosphopyruvic acid.  

A form that a ketone may take by tautomerism. A substance changes from an enol to a ketone by the oscillation of a hydrogen atom from the enol form to the ketone form.  

An increase in size of anything, especially of an organ or tissue.