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megacolon

colonic disease that is characterized by an abnormal dilation of the colon
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megacolon

Summary

megacolon is a class of disease[1]. megacolon has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • megacolon's instance of is recorded as class of disease[3].
  • megacolon is a type of colonic disease[4].
  • megacolon is a type of disease[5].
  • megacolon's Commons category is recorded as Megacolon[6].
  • megacolon's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 564.7[7].
  • megacolon's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C34810[8].
  • megacolon's health specialty is recorded as gastroenterology[9].
  • megacolon's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_11372[10].
  • megacolon's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:11372[11].
  • megacolon's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[12].

Why It Matters

megacolon has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] megacolon is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

disease

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → colonic disease, disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  2. 6w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Health specialty → gastroenterology
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → colonic disease, disease
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 22301, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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