The patient arrives in the clinic with a complaint of altered bowel habits and has a family history of ulcerative colitis. The stools of these patients are characteristically:
A) Watery with blood and mucus
B) Hard and black
C) Long and cylinder shaped
D) Loose and fatty
Ans: A
Feedback: The predominant symptoms of ulcerative colitis are diarrhea and abdominal pain. Stools may be bloody and contain mucus.
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