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Descriptor English: Digestive System Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades del Sistema Digestivo
Descriptor enfermedades del sistema digestivo
Entry term(s) enfermedades del aparato digestivo
enfermedades hepatobiliares
trastornos del aparato digestivo
trastornos del sistema digestivo
trastornos hepatobiliares
Scope note: Enfermedades de cualquier parte del TUBO DIGESTIVO o de sus órganos accesorios (HÍGADO, TRACTO BILIAR o PÁNCREAS).
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças do Sistema Digestório
Descriptor French: Maladies de l'appareil digestif
Entry term(s): Digestive System Disease
Digestive System Disorder
Digestive System Disorders
Hepatobiliary Disease
Hepatobiliary Diseases
Hepatobiliary Disorder
Hepatobiliary Disorders
System Disorders, Digestive
Tree number(s): C06
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004066
Scope note: Diseases in any part of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT or the accessory organs (LIVER; BILIARY TRACT; PANCREAS).
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; refers to all organs of digestive tract: do not confuse with GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; /diag: consider also DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
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: Gastrointestinal Diseases (1966-1979)
Public MeSH Note: 1980
History Note: 1980
Entry Version: DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DIS
DeCS ID: 4106
Unique ID: D004066
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/07/01
Digestive System Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0006374
Scope note Diseases in any part of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT or the accessory organs (LIVER; BILIARY TRACT; PANCREAS).
Preferred term Digestive System Diseases
Entry term(s) Digestive System Disease
Digestive System Disorder
Digestive System Disorders
System Disorders, Digestive
Hepatobiliary Disorders - Narrower
Concept UI M000649413
Preferred term Hepatobiliary Disorders
Entry term(s) Hepatobiliary Disease
Hepatobiliary Diseases
Hepatobiliary Disorder



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