Intestines
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…
Cryptosporidiosis, sometimes informally called crypto, is a parasitic disease caused by…
Environmental enteropathy is an acquired small intestinal disorder characterized by gut…
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…
Lactose intolerance is a lessened ability or a complete inability to digest lactose, a…
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…
Trichuriasis, also known as whipworm infection or trichocephaliasis, is an infection by…
In medicine (gastroenterology), angiodysplasia is a small vascular malformation of the…
Anorectal abscess is an abscess adjacent to the anus. Most cases of perianal abscesses…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…