| inflammatory bowel disease | <disease> A general term that encompasses several disease processes, most commonly, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| inflammatory bowel diseases | Chronic, non-specific disorders of unknown aetiology. Includes crohn disease and ulcerative colitis. Extracolonic manifestations are often associated with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) and involve the liver, joints and skin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pelvic inflammatory disease | <disease> An inflammatory process that results from other pelvic diseases, may result from gonorrhoea, chlamydia, ovarian cystic disease or postpartum infections. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| disease, pelvic inflammatory | Despite its seeming lack of gender, this term is applied to women only. PID refers exclusively to ascending infection of the female genital tract above the cervix. (12 Dec 1998) |
| inflammatory gallbladder disease | <radiology> Post-bulbar ulcer, Crohn disease, TB, Strongyloides, pancreatitis / cholecystitis (12 Dec 1998) |
| generalised small bowel disease | <radiology> Hypoproteinaemia, sprue, Whipple (12 Dec 1998) |
| proximal small bowel disease | <radiology> Giardia, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, Zollinger-Ellison (12 Dec 1998) |
| small bowel disease | <radiology> Main feature, nodules, dilatation, thick folds distribution, localised, generalised, includes stomach, proximal, terminal ileum (TI), mesentery (12 Dec 1998) |
| small bowel disease involving mesentery | <radiology> Lymphoma, metastasis, retractile mesenteritis (12 Dec 1998) |
| small bowel disease involving stomach | <radiology> Lymphoma, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (12 Dec 1998) |
| small bowel disease involving terminal ileum | <radiology> Crohn's, TB, Yersinia (12 Dec 1998) |
| diffuse small bowel disease | <radiology> SWELL GAMES, S sprue, dilatation, dilution, moulage, reversal of jejunal and ileal patterns, W Whipple disease, coarse nodular and irregular mucosa, E oedema, L lymphangiectasis, nodular, thickened folds, L lymphoma, nodular, thickened folds, G giardiasis, oedema and spasm of proximal small bowel, A amyloid, symmetric fold thickening, M mastocytosis, look for sclerotic bones, E eosinophilic gastroenteritis, thickened, nodular folds and spasm, S stasis syndromes see: small bowel disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| irritable bowel disease | <disease> A functional bowel disorder characterised by recurrent crampy abdominal pain and diarrhoea. Invasive gastrointestinal diagnostics are often unrevealing. (27 Sep 1997) |
| ischaemic bowel disease | <surgery> A disorder which results from the inadequate flow of oxygenated blood to the intestines. Symptoms include crampy abdominal pain after eating. More common in those with a history of atherosclerosis and-or diabetes. (15 Oct 1997) |
| localised small bowel disease | <radiology> Crohn's, tumour (including lymphoma), bleed/oedema (12 Dec 1998) |
| acute inflammatory polyneuropathy | <neurology, syndrome> Acute infective polyneuritis that results in a form of peripheral neuropathy with temporary loss of movement and sensation due to inflammation of multiple nerves and loss of myelin. The exact cause is unknown but has been associated with an abnormal immune response to viral infection, particularly cytomegalovirus infection, in which there is cell-mediated immunity to a component of myelin. The disease may be autoimmune in origin and complete recovery can take up to six months. Synonym: Guillain-Barre syndrome (12 Jul 2000) |
| anti-inflammatory | Counteracting or suppressing inflammation. (18 Nov 1997) |