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  2. Category:Gastrointestinal tract disorders - Wikipedia

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    Diseases of intestines (2 C, 41 P) Diseases of oesophagus, stomach and duodenum (3 C, 14 P) G. Gastrointestinal motility disorders (24 P) I. Inflammatory bowel ...

  3. Human digestive system - Wikipedia

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    The intestine is also called the bowel or the gut. The lower GI starts at the pyloric sphincter of the stomach and finishes at the anus. The small intestine is subdivided into the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum. The cecum marks the division between the small and large intestine. The large intestine includes the rectum and anal canal. [2]

  4. Gastrointestinal tract - Wikipedia

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    In human anatomy, the intestine (bowel or gut; Greek: éntera) is the segment of the gastrointestinal tract extending from the pyloric sphincter of the stomach to the anus and as in other mammals, consists of two segments: the small intestine and the large intestine.

  5. List of parasites of humans - Wikipedia

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    intestines stool United States ingestion of oocyst through contaminated food Dientamoebiasis: Dientamoeba fragilis: intestines stool up to 10% in industrialized countries ingesting water or food contaminated with feces Amoebiasis: Entamoeba histolytica: intestines (mainly colon, but can cause liver failure if not treated)

  6. Intestinal infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Intestinal infectious diseases include a large number of infections of the bowels, including cholera, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, other types of salmonella infections, shigellosis, botulism, gastroenteritis, and amoebiasis among others. [1] Typhoid and paratyphoid resulted in 221,000 deaths in 2013 down from 259,000 deaths in 1990. [2]

  7. Category:Diseases of intestines - Wikipedia

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    This category reflects the organization of International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision. Generally, diseases outlined within the ICD-10 codes K55-K63 within Chapter XI: Diseases of the digestive system should be included in this category.

  8. Gastrointestinal disease - Wikipedia

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    Gastrointestinal diseases (abbrev. GI diseases or GI illnesses) refer to diseases involving the gastrointestinal tract, namely the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum; and the accessory organs of digestion, the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. Deaths due to digestive diseases per million persons in 2012

  9. Inflammatory bowel disease - Wikipedia

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    Conditions that can be mistaken particularly for Crohn's disease include Behçet's disease and coeliac disease, while conditions that can be symptomatically similar to ulcerative colitis in particular include acute self-limiting colitis, amebic colitis, schistosomiasis and colon cancer. [67] Other diseases may cause an increased excretion of ...