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Gastrointestinal Transit

"Gastrointestinal Transit" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Passage of food (sometimes in the form of a test meal) through the gastrointestinal tract as measured in minutes or hours. The rate of passage through the intestine is an indicator of small bowel function.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Gastrointestinal Transit" by people in this website by year, and whether "Gastrointestinal Transit" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1998 and 2000
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