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Descriptor English: Sigmoid Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades del Sigmoide
Descriptor enfermedades del sigma
Entry term(s) enfermedades del colon sigmoide
Scope note: Procesos patológicos en la región del COLON SIGMOIDE del INTESTINO GRUESO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças do Colo Sigmoide
Descriptor French: Maladies du sigmoïde
Entry term(s): Colon Disease, Sigmoid
Colon Diseases, Sigmoid
Disease, Sigmoid
Disease, Sigmoid Colon
Diseases, Sigmoid
Diseases, Sigmoid Colon
Sigmoid Colon Disease
Sigmoid Colon Diseases
Sigmoid Disease
Tree number(s): C06.405.469.158.850
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012810
Scope note: Pathological processes in the SIGMOID COLON region of the large intestine (INTESTINE, LARGE).
Annotation: inflamm dis: coord IM with COLITIS (NIM) but note PROCTOSIGMOIDITIS see PROCTOCOLITIS & RECTOSIGMOIDITIS see PROCTOCOLITIS; diverticula & diverticulosis: coord IM with DIVERTICULUM, COLON (IM); diverticulitis: coord IM with DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Colonic Diseases (1966-1979)
Sigmoid (1966-1979)
specific colonic disease
specific intestinal disease
Public MeSH Note: 80
History Note: 80
Entry Version: SIGMOID DIS
DeCS ID: 13190
Unique ID: D012810
NLM Classification: WI 560
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1979/05/29
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Sigmoid Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0019836
Scope note Pathological processes in the SIGMOID COLON region of the large intestine (INTESTINE, LARGE).
Preferred term Sigmoid Diseases
Entry term(s) Colon Disease, Sigmoid
Colon Diseases, Sigmoid
Disease, Sigmoid
Disease, Sigmoid Colon
Diseases, Sigmoid
Diseases, Sigmoid Colon
Sigmoid Colon Disease
Sigmoid Colon Diseases
Sigmoid Disease



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