Vocabulary

• also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
• due to: Because of; owing to
• such as: For example; like
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• phenomenon: Unusual event, fact that can be studied
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• split: No longer married or in a relationship
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• solid: Being able to be trusted; reliable
• desire: To wish for, hope or want something
• lean: To balance against or on something for support
• precisely: In an exact and accurate manner
• intestine: Long tube in the body for digesting food
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• occasionally: Not very often; sometimes; seldom
• regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• physically: In a manner related to the body
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• external: Concerning foreign countries
• regulate: To control something with rules or laws
• digestive: Concerning processes of converting food to energy
• organ: Part of a person's body with a particular function
• due: When something is required or expected
• acute: (Of an angle in math) of less than 90 degrees
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• firmly: In a hard, steady, unchanging way
• regularly: At the usual time each day, week, or month
• squat: To illegally live on anothers property or land
• formation: Process of creating; making a particular shape
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• ideally: In a perfect way; very suitably
• restore: To return a thing to its original condition
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• bowel: End part of the intestine, connected to the anus
• absorption: Process of being absorbed e.g. liquid, attention
• daily: Happening every day
• constipation: Unable to empty your bowels as often as you should
• stool: Single seat without support for the arms or back
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• expel: To force a person to leave a place or organization
• abdominal: Concerned with the stomach area of a body
• voluntarily: Of your own free will; not because you were forced
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• bout: A boxing match
• ascend: To rise, go up to a higher level
• colon: Lower part of intestine turning food into waste
• elevate: To make something higher
• excessively: In a manner more than is necessary; too much
• dysfunction: Failure to act as expected, as in a social context
• bile: Body fluid that helps you digest fat
• age: To keep food, wine for a long time to improve it
• tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
• long: Person's name
• visit: To go to a place for a time, usually for a reason
• anal: Concerning the anus
• fibrous: Containing, having or resembling threads
• anus: Opening in the body from which solid waste passes
• floor: Large area used for a particular purpose
• final: Last game in a series in a competition
• massage: Rubbing neck, back etc., to relieve pain/to relax
• pelvic: Of the bone joining the hip to the back and legs
• childbirth: Process of giving birth to a child
• transverse: Laying or made across something