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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Malabsorption Syndromes > Celiac Disease
Digestive System Diseases > Gastrointestinal Diseases > Intestinal Diseases > Malabsorption Syndromes > Celiac Disease

Preferred term

Celiac Disease  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Celiac Sprue
  • Enteropathies, Gluten
  • Enteropathies, Gluten-Sensitive
  • Enteropathy, Gluten
  • Enteropathy, Gluten-Sensitive
  • Gluten Enteropathies
  • Gluten Enteropathy
  • Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathies
  • Gluten Sensitive Enteropathy
  • Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy
  • Nontropical Sprue
  • Sprue
  • Sprue, Celiac
  • Sprue, Nontropical

Note

  • do not confuse with SPRUE, TROPICAL

Scope note

  • A malabsorption syndrome that is precipitated by the ingestion of foods containing GLUTEN, such as wheat, rye, and barley. It is characterized by INFLAMMATION of the SMALL INTESTINE, loss of MICROVILLI structure, failed INTESTINAL ABSORPTION, and MALNUTRITION.

In other languages

  • keliakia

    Finnish

  • coeliacia
  • ei-trooppinen sprue
  • enteropathia e gluteno
  • gluteenienteropatia
  • idiopaattinen rasvaripuli
  • sprue non tropica
  • steatorrhoea idiopathica
  • Glutenintolerans

    Swedish

  • Celiaki
  • Glutenenteropati
  • Glutenöverkänslighet

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002446

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