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Digestive System > Gastrointestinal Tract > Lower Gastrointestinal Tract > Intestine, Large > Rectum
Digestive System > Gastrointestinal Tract > Intestines > Intestine, Large > Rectum

Preferred term

Rectum  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • /surg: do not confuse with the specialty COLORECTAL SURGERY; rectal bleeding: RECTUM + HEMORRHAGE, GASTROINTESTINAL for bleeding through the rectum; hemorrhaging rectum is RECTAL DISEASES + HEMORRHAGE, GASTROINTESTINAL; inflammation = PROCTITIS; /abnorm: consider also ANORECTAL MALFORMATIONS

Scope note

  • The distal segment of the LARGE INTESTINE, between the SIGMOID COLON and the ANAL CANAL.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012007

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