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MeSH Heading: Digestive System Diseases
Tree Number(s): C06
Unique ID: D004066
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004066
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
Scope Note: Diseases in any part of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT or the accessory organs (LIVER; BILIARY TRACT; PANCREAS).
Entry Version: DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DIS
Entry Term(s): Digestive System Disorders; Hepatobiliary Diseases; Hepatobiliary Disorders
Previous Indexing: Gastrointestinal Diseases (1966-1979)
Public MeSH Note: 1980
History Note: 1980
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/07/01

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

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