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Digestive System and Oral Physiological Phenomena > Digestive System Physiological Phenomena > Gastrointestinal Motility > Gastrointestinal Transit
Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Techniques, Digestive System > Gastrointestinal Transit

Preferred term

Gastrointestinal Transit  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • GI Transit
  • GI Transits
  • Transit, GI
  • Transits, GI

Note

  • transit time also goes here

Scope note

  • Passage of food (sometimes in the form of a test meal) through the gastrointestinal tract as measured in minutes or hours. The rate of passage through the intestine is an indicator of small bowel function.

History note

  • 88

In other languages

  • ruuansulatuskanavan läpikulku

    Finnish

  • gastrointestinaalikanavan läpikulku
  • gastrointestinaalinen läpikulku
  • GI-kanavan läpikulku
  • maha-suolikanavan läpikulku
  • ruoansulatuskanavan läpikulku
  • Mag-tarmpassage

    Swedish

  • Gastrointestinal transit

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005772

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