| diagnostic techniques, digestive system | Methods and procedures for the diagnosis of diseases or dysfunction of the digestive system or its organs or demonstration of their physiological processes. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| digestive system | The organs that are responsible for getting food into and out of the body and for making use of food to keep the body healthy. These include the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, colon, and rectum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| digestive system abnormalities | Congenital structural abnormalities of the digestive system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| digestive system fistula | An abnormal passage communicating between any parts of the digestive system or between any part of the digestive system and other organs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| digestive system surgical procedures | Surgery performed on the digestive system or its parts. (12 Dec 1998) |
| endoscopy, digestive system | Visual examination of the digestive tract by means of a fibreoptic endoscope. It is used to localise, identify, and photograph pathologic alterations, to obtain biopsy material and perform other surgical interventions, and for delivery of medication. (12 Dec 1998) |
| genes, overlapping | Genes whose nucleotide sequences overlap to some degree. The overlapped sequences may involve structural or regulatory genes of eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells. (12 Dec 1998) |
| overlapping | <cell biology> In cell locomotion situation in which the leading lamella of one cell moves actively over the dorsal surface of another cell should be distinguished from underlapping. (18 Nov 1997) |
| overlapping gene | <molecular biology> Different genes whose nucleotide coding sequences overlap to some extent. The common nucleotide sequence is read in two or three different reading frames thus specifying different polypeptides. (18 Nov 1997) |
| overlapping reading frame | <molecular biology> Start codons in different reading frames which generate different polypeptides from the same DNA sequence. (09 Oct 1997) |
| signs and symptoms, digestive | Digestive system manifestations of diseases of the gastrointestinal system or of other organs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| digestive | Pertaining to digestion. (18 Nov 1997) |
| digestive apparatus | The digestive tract from the mouth to the anus with all its associated glands and organs. Synonym: apparatus digestorius. (05 Mar 2000) |
| digestive enzymes | Enzymes that are utilised in the digestive system, enzymes that are hydrolases of macromolecules (e.g., amylases, proteinases). (05 Mar 2000) |
| digestive fever | A slight rise of body temperature occurring during the period of digestion. (05 Mar 2000) |