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Do we need digestive system, gastrointestinal system, both, or neither?
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Parent topics
- Cholesterol [r]: Principal sterol of all higher animals. [e]
- Digestive system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gastrointestinal system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liver [r]: A vital organ of humans and other vertebrates, it is the largest solid organ in the human body. [e]
Subtopics
- Bile acid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bile acid binding resin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bile pigment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bilirubin [r]: A bile pigment that is a degradation product of heme. Elevated bilirubin levels suggest liver disease. [e]
- Common bile duct [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gallstone [r]: Add brief definition or description
Co-topics
- Gallbladder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gastroenterology [r]: A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of the physiology and diseases of the digestive system and related structures (esophagus, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas [e]
- Pancreas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liver function test [r]: Clinical biochemistry laboratory blood assays designed to assess liver function and diagnose diseases of the liver and bile system. [e]
Other related topics
- Amylase [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biliary colic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biliary dyskinesia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cholecystitis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cholelithiasis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cholesystectomy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Computed tomography [r]: An imaging technique that computes three-dimensional representations of an object from a series of two-dimensional x-ray images. [e]
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Endoscopic retrograde sphincterotomy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leukocyte [r]: Colourless cells of the immune system which defend the body against both infectious disease and foreign materials, and grouped into neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes. [e]
- Lipase [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pancreatitis [r]: Inflammation of the pancreas, commonly acute due to alcoholic pancreatitis or gallstone pancreatitis. [e]
- Neutrophil [r]: Leukocytes (white blood cells) whose primary role is in the cell-mediated immune system, where they destroy hostile substance by phagocytosis. They do release interleukin-12. [e]
- Ultrasonography [r]: Diagnostic imaging using acoustic energy, usually above the human hearing range, although the instruments may provide an audible representation for the examiner [e]
