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MeSH Heading: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Tree Number(s): C06.405.205.731; C06.405.469.432
Unique ID: D015212
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015212
Scope Note: Chronic, non-specific inflammation of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. Etiology may be genetic or environmental. This term includes CROHN DISEASE and ULCERATIVE COLITIS.
Entry Version: INFLAMM BOWEL DIS
Entry Term(s): Bowel Diseases, Inflammatory
NLM Classification #: WI 420
Previous Indexing: Colitis, Ulcerative (1966-1988); Crohn Disease (1980-1988)
Public MeSH Note: 89
History Note: 89
Date Established: 1989/01/01
Date of Entry: 1988/05/04
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)

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases MeSH Descriptor Data 2023