DeCS

Descriptor English:

Rectum

Descriptor Spanish:

Recto

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	recto
Scope note:	Porción del intestino grueso, de unos 12 cm de longitud, que se continúa con el colon sigmoideo, inmediatamente proximal al canal anal. Sigue la curva sacrococcígea y termina en el canal anal. (Diccionario Mosby. 5a ed. Madrid: Harcourt España, 2000, p.1073)

Descriptor Portuguese:

Reto

Descriptor French:

Rectum

Tree number(s):

A03.556.124.526.767
A03.556.249.249.767

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012007

Scope note:

The distal segment of the LARGE INTESTINE, between the SIGMOID COLON and the ANAL CANAL.

Annotation:

/surg: do not confuse with the specialty COLORECTAL SURGERY; rectal bleeding: RECTUM + HEMORRHAGE, GASTROINTESTINAL for bleeding through the rectum; hemorrhaging rectum is RECTAL DISEASES + HEMORRHAGE, GASTROINTESTINAL; inflammation = PROCTITIS; /abnorm: consider also ANORECTAL MALFORMATIONS

Allowable Qualifiers:

AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
IM immunologie
IN traumatismes
IR innervation
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie

DeCS ID:

12427

Unique ID:

D012007

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Date Established:

1966/01/01

Date of Entry:

1999/01/01

Revision Date:

2016/05/03