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MeSH Heading: Sigmoid Diseases
Tree Number(s): C06.405.469.158.850
Unique ID: D012810
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012810
Annotation: inflamm dis: coord IM with COLITIS (NIM) but note PROCTOSIGMOIDITIS see PROCTOCOLITIS & RECTOSIGMOIDITIS see PROCTOCOLITIS; diverticula & diverticulosis: coord IM with DIVERTICULUM, COLON (IM); diverticulitis: coord IM with DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC (IM)
Scope Note: Pathological processes in the SIGMOID COLON region of the large intestine (INTESTINE, LARGE).
Entry Version: SIGMOID DIS
Entry Term(s): Sigmoid Colon Diseases
NLM Classification #: WI 560
Previous Indexing: Colonic Diseases (1966-1979); Sigmoid (1966-1979); specific colonic disease; specific intestinal disease
Public MeSH Note: 80
History Note: 80
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1979/05/29
Revision Date: 2003/07/09

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)

Sigmoid Diseases MeSH Descriptor Data 2025