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Chronic or recurrent colonic disorders without an identifiable structural or biochemical explanation. The widely recognized IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME falls into this category.
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- Colonic Diseases, Functional
- Colonic Disease, Functional
- Disease, Functional Colonic
- Diseases, Functional Colonic
- Functional Colonic Disease
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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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65; was COLITIS, MUCOUS 1963-64; COLITIS, MUCOUS was see under COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL 1965-78
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- National Library of Medicine. Functional Colonic Diseases. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003109. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003109
- Functional Colonic Diseases. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18556106