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H. pylori

H. pylori

2 6.3
A germ that infects the stomach lining and often causes ulcers and stomach pain
  • noun
  • /eɪtʃ paɪˈlɔri/
  • Specialized
: H. pylori
  • When acid suppression is removed, the majority of ulcers, particularly those caused by H. pylori, recur.
  • H. pylori infection
  • H. pylori causes
  • H. pylori infects

There's a pathogen known as H pylori and it becomes stronger when we're stressed out.

Examples

  • It is not known how H. pylori is transmitted or why some patients become symptomatic while others do not.

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  • What is H. pylori?

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  • What can people do to prevent H. pylori infection?

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  • How do people get infected with H. pylori?

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  • What illnesses does H. pylori cause?

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  • Adjunctive antibiotic treatment aimed at eradicating H. pylori has also been proven beneficial.

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  • Gastric cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide; it is most common in countries such as Colombia and China, where H. pylori infects over half the population in early childhood.

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  • A combination regimen of two or more antibiotics has been used as the most effective way to eradicate H. pylori and subsequent peptic ulcer infections.

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  • Most persons who are infected with H. pylori never suffer any symptoms related to the infection; however, H. pylori causes chronic active, chronic persistent, and atrophic gastritis in adults and children.

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  • To treat ulcers effectively, doctors often test for H. pylori bacteria in the patient's stomach lining.

Synonyms

Helicobacter pylori
vsH. pylori
  • Specialized
1 3.7

A spiral-shaped bacterium that lives in the stomach and can cause stomach inflammation and ulcers

is the short alternative form used for the same organism

Surface Forms

H. pylori singular

Morphology

H. + pylori

This is an abbreviated scientific binomial name (Helicobacter pylori) whose constituents 'H.' and 'pylori' are abbreviations/Latin fragments rather than ordinary English lexical items. The bacterium meaning cannot be compositionally derived from those parts, so even a learner who 'knows' the tokens would not predict the clinical sense. Although the same Latin name appears across languages, that cross-linguistic consistency does not make the term semantically transparent to B1 learners.

Etymology

H. pylori is short for Helicobacter pylori, where Helico means 'spiral' and pylori points to the exit of the stomach, so the name paints a picture of a spiral-shaped germ living near the stomach opening, which explains why it causes 'stomach' problems.