The medical term for the passage of bright red bloody stools; usually indicative of lower GI bowel bleeding from the sigmoid colon, rectum or anus is ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


hematochezia

Hematochezia is the medical term for passage of bright red bloody stools. The term deconstructs into the suffix -chezia meaning pass a stool and root/combining form hemat/o meaning blood.

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