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Abstract
Failure of voluntary control of the anal sphincters, with involuntary passage of feces and flatus.
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5 entry terms
- Bowel Incontinence
- Incontinence, Bowel
- Incontinence, Fecal
- Fecal Soiling
- Soilings, Fecal
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35 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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of organic origin: differentiate from ENCOPRESIS, of psychological origin
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70(66)
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WI 603
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Fecal Incontinence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005242. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005242
- Fecal Incontinence. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_incontinence
- Fecal Incontinence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1147182