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... > Digestive System > Gastrointestinal Tract > Intestines > Intestine, Small > Ileum > Ileocecal Valve
Digestive System > Gastrointestinal Tract > Lower Gastrointestinal Tract > Ileum > Ileocecal Valve

Preferred term

Ileocecal Valve  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • diseases: coord IM with ILEAL DISEASES (IM); neopl: coord IM with ILEAL NEOPLASMS (IM); ileocecal intussusception or invagination: index under ILEOCECAL VALVE (IM) + INTUSSUSCEPTION (IM) + ILEAL DISEASES (IM) but not also CECAL DISEASES

Scope note

  • The valve, at the junction of the CECUM with the COLON, that guards the opening where the ILEUM enters the LARGE INTESTINE.

In other languages

  • ileosekaaliläppä

    Finnish

  • Bauhini
  • Bauhinin läppä
  • ileokekaaliläppä
  • valva ilealis
  • valva ileocaecalis
  • Ileocekalklaff

    Swedish

  • Bauhins klaff
  • Valva ileocaecalis

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007080

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