Bowel Function

Preferred Label : Bowel Function;

NCIt definition : The process of food digestion, nutrient absorption, and waste expulsion through the intestines.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: The way the intestines work in terms of how often there are bowel movements, the ability to control when to have a bowel movement, and whether the stools are hard and dry as in constipation or watery as in diarrhea.;

NCI Metathesaurus CUI : CL426234;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000446980;

Details

Origin ID

C94609;

UMLS CUI

C0011135;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Operation on intestine (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- functional gastrointestinal tract [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Bowel action (observable entity) [SNOMED CT concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Organism Function [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Bowel action (observable entity) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Defaecation [ICNP subject]
- Defecation [LOINC part]
- Defecation (observable entity) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Passes stool completely (finding) [SNOMED CT concept]
- bowel habits, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- bowel movement [MedlinePlus Topic]
- defecation [GO term]
- defecation [MeSH concept]
- defecation [MeSH Descriptor]
- defecation functions [ICF N2 Element]
- defecation, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- normal defecation [SNOMED Notion]

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