78 diseases · 24 high-burden in India
Amoebiasis, or amoebic dysentery, is an infection of the intestines caused by a parasitic…
Anal fistula is a chronic abnormal communication between the anal canal and the perianal…
Ascariasis is a disease caused by the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides.…
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio…
Cryptosporidiosis, sometimes informally called crypto, is a parasitic disease caused by…
Environmental enteropathy is an acquired small intestinal disorder characterized by gut…
Giardiasis is a parasitic disease caused by the protist enteropathogen Giardia…
Dracunculiasis, also called Guinea-worm disease, is a parasitic infection by the Guinea…
Hookworm infection is an infection by a type of intestinal parasite known as a hookworm.…
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is tuberculosis (TB) within a location in the body other than…
Helminthiasis, also known as worm infection, is any macroparasitic disease of humans and…
Kwashiorkor is a form of severe protein malnutrition characterized by edema and an…
Lactose intolerance is a lessened ability or a complete inability to digest lactose, a…
Marasmus is a form of severe malnutrition characterized by energy deficiency. It can be…
Pinworm infection, also known as enterobiasis, is a human parasitic disease caused by the…
Protein–energy undernutrition (PEU), once called protein–energy malnutrition (PEM), is a…
A rectovaginal fistula is a medical condition where there is a fistula or abnormal…
Shigellosis, known historically as dysentery, is an infection of the intestines caused by…
Strongyloidiasis is a human parasitic disease caused by the nematode called Strongyloides…
Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). Most of…
Toxocariasis is an illness of humans caused by the dog roundworm and, less frequently,…
Tropical sprue is a malabsorption disease commonly found in tropical regions, marked with…
Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid, is an orally contracted disease caused by…
Trichuriasis, also known as whipworm infection or trichocephaliasis, is an infection by…
Anal cancer is a cancer which arises from the anus, the distal opening of the…
An anal fissure is a break or tear in the skin of the anal canal. Anal fissures may be…
In medicine (gastroenterology), angiodysplasia is a small vascular malformation of the…
Anismus or dyssynergic defecation is the failure of normal relaxation of pelvic floor…
Anorectal abscess is an abscess adjacent to the anus. Most cases of perianal abscesses…
Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix. Symptoms commonly include right lower…
Bowel obstruction, also known as intestinal obstruction, is a mechanical or functional…
Clostridioides difficile infection, also known as Clostridium difficile infection, is a…
Clonorchiasis is an infectious disease caused by the Chinese liver fluke and two related…
Coeliac disease or celiac disease is a chronic autoimmune disease, mainly affecting the…
Collagenous colitis is an inflammatory condition of the colon. Together with the related…
Colorectal cancer, also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the…
A colorectal polyp is a polyp occurring on the lining of the colon or rectum. Untreated…
Constipation is a bowel dysfunction that makes bowel movements infrequent or hard to…
Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that may affect any segment…
Cronkhite–Canada syndrome is a rare syndrome characterized by multiple polyps of the…
Diverticulitis, also called colonic diverticulitis, is a gastrointestinal disease…
Diverticulosis is the condition of having multiple pouches (diverticula) in the colon…
Fecal incontinence (FI), or in some forms, encopresis, is a lack of control over…
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is an autosomal dominant inherited condition in…
Fasciolosis is a parasitic worm infection caused by the common liver fluke Fasciola…
Hemorrhoids, also known as piles, are vascular structures in the anal canal. In their…
Hirschsprung's disease is a birth defect in which nerves are missing from parts of the…
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and…
Waldmann disease, also known as Primary Intestinal Lymphangiectasia (PIL), is a rare…
Intestinal malrotation is a congenital anomaly of rotation of the midgut. It occurs…
Intestinal pseudo-obstruction (IPO) is a clinical syndrome caused by severe impairment in…
Intussusception is a medical condition in which a part of the intestine folds into the…
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder characterized by…
Ischemic colitis is a medical condition in which inflammation and injury of the large…
Juvenile polyposis syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic condition characterized by…
Lymphocytic colitis is a subtype of microscopic colitis, a condition characterized by…
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is a hereditary predisposition to colon…
A Meckel's diverticulum, a true congenital diverticulum, is a slight bulge in the small…
Megacolon is an abnormal dilation of the colon. This leads to hypertrophy of the colon.…
Microscopic colitis refers to two related medical conditions which cause diarrhea:…
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is an intestinal disease that affects premature or very…
Peutz–Jeghers syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by the…
Pilonidal disease is a type of skin infection that typically occurs as a cyst between the…
Pneumatosis intestinalis is pneumatosis of an intestine, that is, gas cysts in the bowel…
Proctalgia fugax, a variant of levator ani syndrome, is a severe, episodic pain in the…
Proctitis or anusitis is an inflammation of the anus and the lining of the rectum,…
Radiation enteropathy is a syndrome that may develop following abdominal or pelvic…
A rectal prolapse occurs when walls of the rectum have prolapsed to such a degree that…
In gynecology, a rectocele or posterior vaginal wall prolapse results when the rectum…
Short bowel syndrome is a rare malabsorption disorder caused by a lack of functional…
Sigmoid colon volvulus, also known as sigmoid volvulus, is volvulus affecting the sigmoid…
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), also termed bacterial overgrowth, or small…
Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome is a chronic disorder of the rectal mucosa. Symptoms are…
Toxic megacolon is an acute form of colonic distension. It is characterized by a very…
Neutropenic enterocolitis, also known as typhlitis, is an inflammation of the cecum that…
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is one of the two types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with…
A volvulus is a bowel obstruction resulting from a loop of intestine twisting around…
Whipple's disease is a rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium…