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toxic megacolon

potentially lethal large intestine emergency
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q588321
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Summary

toxic megacolon is a class of disease[1]. It draws 1,383 Wikipedia views per month (class of disease category, ranking #516 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: megacolon[3]
  • Commons category: Toxic megacolon[4]
  • ICD-9-CM: 564.7[5]
  • Health specialty: gastroenterology[6], surgery[7]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1770[8], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1770[9]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[10]
  • P14541: 1XbPO4[11]

Why It Matters

toxic megacolon has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'it', 'pl', 'tr', 'uk']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Mediawiki page id: 63327, Add qualifier to WikiProjectMed ID `Toxic megacolon`"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1XbPO4
    Instance of → class of disease
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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