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Descriptor English: Intestines
Descriptor Spanish: Intestinos
Descriptor intestinos
Scope note: Porción de la vía alimentaria comprendida entre el ESTÓMAGO y el CANAL ANAL. Consta del INTESTINO DELGADO y el INTESTINO GRUESO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Intestinos
Descriptor French: Intestins
Entry term(s): Intestine
Tree number(s): A03.556.124
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007422
Scope note: The section of the alimentary canal from the STOMACH to the ANAL CANAL. It includes the LARGE INTESTINE and SMALL INTESTINE.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; intestinal secretion: index INTESTINAL SECRETIONS or INTESTINAL MUCOSA; invagination = INTUSSUSCEPTION; /surg: consider also ENTEROSTOMY & GASTROENTEROSTOMY; inflammation or inflammatory disease: see note on INTESTINAL DISEASES; gas cysts = PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IN injuries
IR innervation
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Entry Combination: metabolism:Intestinal Mucosa /metabolism
Public MeSH Note: /microbiology was INTESTINAL MICROORGANISMS 1963-67
History Note: /microbiology was INTESTINAL MICROORGANISMS 1963-67
Consider Also: consider also terms at ENTER-
Related: Enterostomy MeSH
Gastroenterostomy MeSH
DeCS ID: 7585
Unique ID: D007422
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Date Established: 1960/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/06/14
Intestines - Preferred
Concept UI M0011586
Scope note The section of the alimentary canal from the STOMACH to the ANAL CANAL. It includes the LARGE INTESTINE and SMALL INTESTINE.
Preferred term Intestines
Entry term(s) Intestine



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