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Descriptor English: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades Inflamatorias del Intestino
Descriptor enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal
Scope note: Inflamación inespedífica y crónica, del TUBO DIGESTIVO. Su etiología puede ser genética o ambiental. Este término comprende la ENFERMEDAD DE CROHN y la COLITIS ULCEROSA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças Inflamatórias Intestinais
Descriptor French: Maladies inflammatoires intestinales
Entry term(s): Bowel Diseases, Inflammatory
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Tree number(s): C06.405.205.731
C06.405.469.432
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015212
Scope note: Chronic, non-specific inflammation of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. Etiology may be genetic or environmental. This term includes CROHN DISEASE and ULCERATIVE COLITIS.
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: Colitis, Ulcerative (1966-1988)
Crohn Disease (1980-1988)
Public MeSH Note: 89
History Note: 89
Entry Version: INFLAMM BOWEL DIS
DeCS ID: 23695
Unique ID: D015212
NLM Classification: WI 420
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1989/01/01
Date of Entry: 1988/05/04
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0023374
Scope note Chronic, non-specific inflammation of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. Etiology may be genetic or environmental. This term includes CROHN DISEASE and ULCERATIVE COLITIS.
Preferred term Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Entry term(s) Bowel Diseases, Inflammatory
Inflammatory Bowel Disease



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