Gastrointestinal

Definition: Gastrointestinal

Gastrointestinal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines; "a gastrointestinal disorder".

Note: Gastrointestinal \Gas`tro*in*tes"ti*nal\, adjective. [Gastro- -intestinal.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Gastrointestinal

Domain	Definitions
Health	Refers to the stomach and intestines. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Gastrointestinal

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
GASTER	English	Gastrointestinal endoscopy applications for standards in telecommunications and research	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Gastrointestinal

Synonym: gi (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Gastrointestinal

English words defined with "gastrointestinal": acidophilus milk, Adapin, Alpine scurvy, aphthous ulcer ♦ carcinoid, Cholera morbus ♦ diarrhea, diarrhoea, doxepin, doxepin hydrochloride ♦ enterovirus ♦ finding ♦ Gastroenteric, gastroenterologist, gastroenterology, gastrointestinal disorder, gastrointestinal system, gastrointestinal tract, gi ♦ haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever, hyoscyamine, hyperalimentation, hypermotility ♦ IgA, immunoglobulin A ♦ looseness of the bowels ♦ maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, melaena, melena ♦ niacin, nicotinic acid ♦ pellagra ♦ Saint Ignatius' itch, Sinequan ♦ total parenteral nutrition, TPN. (references)

Specialty definitions using "gastrointestinal": 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid ♦ Absorbed Dose, Adenoviruses, Human, Angelica root, Angiodysplasia, Anti-Ulcer Agents, Applied Dose, Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia ♦ Bacterial Translocation, Behcet's Syndrome, Bluetongue, Bradykinin, Butylscopolammonium Bromide ♦ Ca+-ATPase, CA-125 Antigen, Cadmium Poisoning, Cambendazole, Carcinoembryonic Antigen, Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell, Chlorquinaldol, Cholagogues and Choleretics, Cholecystokinin, Ciguatoxin, Coronavirus, Crack Cocaine, Crohn Disease, Cryptosporidia, Cyclandelate ♦ D Cells, Diatrizoate, Dicyclomine, Digestive Tract Contents, Domperidone, Dumping Syndrome ♦ Embolization, Therapeutic, Emepronium, Emetics, Endocrine Cells of Gut, Endoscopes, Gastrointestinal, Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal, Enteral Nutrition, Enterosorption, European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ♦ Fabry Disease, Food Hypersensitivity, Foodborne Illness ♦ gasterophilosis, Gasterophilus infection, Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia, Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide, Gastrins, Gastrocolic Reflex, Gastrointestinal Agents, Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage, Gastrointestinal Hormones, Gastrointestinal Neoplasms, gastrointestinal stromal tumor, Gastrointestinal Transit, Giardia Lamblia, Glycopyrrolate, Gossypol ♦ Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple, hawthorn fruit, Hematologic, Gastrointestinal, and Renal Agents, Hemostasis, Endoscopic, Hexamethonium, Histamine H2 Antagonists, horse bot fly, Hypereosinophilic Syndrome ♦ Immunity, Mucosal, Infusions, Intra-Arterial, Intubation, Gastrointestinal ♦ jet tummy ♦ Leukemic Infiltration, Leukotrienes, lower GI series ♦ Malaria, Falciparum, Mallory-Weiss Syndrome, Mecamylamine, Mechlorethamine, Methanobacterium, Methanosarcinaceae, Methysergide ♦ Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Nitrosomethylurethane, Norfloxacin ♦ pentosan polysulfate, Peptichemio, Peptide PHI, Phenolsulfonphthalein, Pipemidic Acid, Pirenzepine, Porphyria, Acute Intermittent, Prednimustine, Proglumide, Protein-Losing Enteropathies, Purpura, Schoenlein-Henoch ♦ Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2, Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone, Receptors, Parathyroid Hormone. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Gastrointestinal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (gastrointestinal, gastro-intestinal), German (gastrointestinal), Portuguese (gastronome), Romanian (gastrointestinal), Spanish (gastrointestinal).

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Commercial Usage: Gastrointestinal

Domain	Title
Books	Gastrointestinal Health: A Self-Help Nutritional Program to Prevent, Cure, or Alleviate Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcers, Heartburn, Gas, constipatio (reference) Gastrointestinal Oncology: Principles and Practice (reference) Gastrointestinal Pathology: An Atlas and Text (reference) Gastrointestinal Physiology (reference) Johns Hopkins Manual for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Nursing (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics Of North America (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Gastrointestinal

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal DisordersP. (references)
		Asymptomatic carriage in gastrointestinal and genital tracts is common. (references)
		Fortunately, time usually heals this particular gastrointestinal disease. (references)
Economic History	Japan	Other dominant categories include gastrointestinal; antibiotics; anti-cancer drugs; other metabolic agents; diagnostic reagents; biological products; dermatological, and vitamins. (references)
	Sweden	The Swedish pharmaceutical industry is active in research and drug sales in the areas of oncology, growth disorders and eye diseases, gastrointestinal, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. (references)
Travel	Nepal	The most prevalent illnesses encountered by foreign visitors are respiratory infections, allergies, and gastrointestinal infections due to ingesting contaminated food and water. (references)
Worker Rights	Brazil	Children working in dangerous activities such as charcoal production, sisal production, sugarcane harvesting, and footwear suffer injuries including dismemberment, gastrointestinal disease, chronic fever and headaches, lacerations, blindness, and burns and poisoning caused by the unprotected application of pesticides. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Gastrointestinal

"Gastrointestinal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.22% of the time. "Gastrointestinal" is used about 514 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.22%	510	11,877
Noun (proper)	0.78%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	514	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Gastrointestinal

Expressions using "gastrointestinal": European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ♦ Gastrointestinal Agents ♦ Gastrointestinal complications ♦ gastrointestinal disorder ♦ Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage ♦ Gastrointestinal Hormones ♦ Gastrointestinal Neoplasms ♦ gastrointestinal stromal tumor ♦ gastrointestinal system ♦ gastrointestinal tract ♦ Gastrointestinal Transit. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "gastrointestinal": non-gastrointestinal.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gastrointestinal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
gastrointestinal	215
gastrointestinal disorder	75
gastrointestinal disease	64
gastrointestinal stromal tumor	54
gastrointestinal problem	53
gastrointestinal tract	39
gastrointestinal surgery	37
gastrointestinal endoscopy	31
gastrointestinal bypass	25
gastrointestinal bleeding	20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gastrointestinal

Language		Translations for "gastrointestinal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		食�" (Esophagus, gut, oesophagus). (various references)

Danish		gastrointestinal (gastro-intestinal). (various references)

Dutch		gastro-intestinaal (gastro-intestinal). (various references)

Finnish		gastrointestinaalinen (gastro-intestinal), maha-suoli- (gastro-intestinal). (various references)

French		gastro-intestinal (gastro-intestinal). (various references)

German		gastrointestinal (gastro-intestinal). (various references)

Greek		γαστρεντερικός (gastro-intestinal). (various references)

Hungarian		béltraktus (gastrointestinal tract). (various references)

Italian		gastrointestinale (gastroenteric, gastro-intestinal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		胃腸病 (gastrointestinal disorder), 胃腸神経症 (gastrointestinal neurosis). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いちょうし�"けいしょう (gastrointestinal neurosis), いちょうびょう (gastrointestinal disorder). (various references)

Korean		위장 (camouflage). (various references)

Pig Latin		astrointestinalgay.(various references)

Portuguese		gastroenterite (gastric ulcer), gastrintestinal. (various references)

Romanian		gastrointestinal. (various references)

Russian		желудочно-кишечный. (various references)

Spanish		gastrointestinal (gastro-intestinal). (various references)

Turkish		mide-bağırsak, mide ve bağırsaklar ile ilgili. (various references)

Ukranian		шлунково-кишковий. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Gastrointestinal

Misspellings
	"Gastrointestinal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gastrointestional, gastrointetinal, gastrontestinal, gstrointestinal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gastrointestinal"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "gastrointestinal" (pronounced ga'strōi'nte"stunul)
10	-i' n t e" s t u n u l	intestinal.
5	-t u n u l	cantonal, retinal, sentinel.
4	-u n u l	abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, Arsenal, attitudinal, binational, biphenyl, Cardinal, coeducational, collisional, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, criminal, delusional, denominational, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, erosional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, impersonal, improvisational, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, interpersonal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, representational, rotational, seasonal, sectional, seminal, sensational, situational, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, virginal, vocational.
3	-n u l	adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, infernal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, spinal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl.
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Anagrams: Gastrointestinal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-s-t-t-t"
	-3 letters: strontianites.
	-4 letters: alternations, antirealists, instantiates, integrations, interstation, nationalises, nationalists, orientalists, rationalises, rationalists, rationalness, regionalists, resignations, retaliations, strontianite, transitional, translations.
	-5 letters: alienations, alterations, alternating, alternation, anagnorises, anagnorisis, antagonists, antirealist, antistories, assentation, assignation, astringents, atonalities, attentional, attritional, gestational, ingratiates, insertional, instantiate, instigators, integration, isoantigens, literations, nationalise, nationalist, orientalist, orientating, rationalise, rationalist, reassailing, reattaining, regionalist, reinstating, resignation, retaliating, retaliation, sanitations, sensational, signatories, stagnations, stilettoing, straitening, tantalising, transitions, translating, translation.
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