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Intestinal Obstruction

"Intestinal Obstruction" 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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Any impairment, arrest, or reversal of the normal flow of INTESTINAL CONTENTS toward the ANAL CANAL.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Intestinal Obstruction" by people in this website by year, and whether "Intestinal Obstruction" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 52 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2015
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