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The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) conducts and supports research on many of the most serious diseases affecting public health. The Institute supports much of the clinical research on the diseases of internal medicine and related subspecialty fields, as ...
A lack of normal muscle tone or strength in the colon. It may result in chronic constipation.
Industry:Medical
The largest abdominal organ. The liver carries out many important functions, such as making important blood proteins and bile, changing food into energy, and cleaning alcohol and poisons from the blood.
Industry:Medical
An opening in the diaphragm that allows the upper part of the stomach to move up into the chest. It may cause heartburn from stomach acid flowing back up through the opening.
Industry:Medical
A person who is significantly below the average height, possibly due to a disease or medical condition such as malnutrition.
Industry:Medical
Thin membranous structures within the lining of the esophagus that can narrow the esophageal lumen, or space in the interior of the esophagus.
Industry:Medical
An infection caused by the candida fungus, which lives naturally in the gastrointestinal tract.
Industry:Medical
An operation that attaches the colon to an opening in the abdomen called a stoma. An ostomy pouch, attached to the stoma and worn outside the body, collects stool. A temporary colostomy may be created to allow the rectum to heal from injury or surgery.
Industry:Medical
The lack of a normal opening in the esophagus, intestines, bile ducts, or anus.
Industry:Medical
