aphthous stomatitis
stomatitis characterized by the repeated formation of benign and non-contagious mouth ulcers
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Summary
aphthous stomatitis is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,361 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
- Subclass of: clinical sign[4], stomatitis[5], lesions in mouth[6], disease[7]
- Commons category: Aphthous ulcer[8]
- ICPC 2 ID: D83[9]
- Described by source: The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[10]
- Partially coincident with: mouth ulcer[11]
- ICD-9-CM: 528.2[12]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C62546[13]
- Different from: ASEAN Free Trade Area[14]
- Health specialty: oral medicine[15], dermatology[16]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: thalidomide[17], amlexanox[18]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_9663[19], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:9663[20], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0011107[21]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[22]
Why It Matters
aphthous stomatitis has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 110 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]