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Bowel obstruction and Foreign body

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Difference between Bowel obstruction and Foreign body

Bowel obstruction vs. Foreign body

Bowel obstruction, also known as intestinal obstruction, is a mechanical or functional obstruction of the intestines which prevents the normal movement of the products of digestion. In the field of medicine, a foreign body, sometimes known as FB (Latin: corpus alienum), is any object originating outside the body of an organism.

Similarities between Bowel obstruction and Foreign body

Bowel obstruction and Foreign body have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Dehydration, Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal tract, Peritonitis.

Dehydration

In physiology, dehydration is a deficit of total body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes.

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Endoscopy

An endoscopy (looking inside) is used in medicine to look inside the body.

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Gastrointestinal tract

The gastrointestinal tract (digestive tract, digestional tract, GI tract, GIT, gut, or alimentary canal) is an organ system within humans and other animals which takes in food, digests it to extract and absorb energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste as feces.

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Peritonitis

Peritonitis is inflammation of the peritoneum, the lining of the inner wall of the abdomen and cover of the abdominal organs.

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Bowel obstruction and Foreign body Comparison

Bowel obstruction has 103 relations, while Foreign body has 49. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 2.63% = 4 / (103 + 49).

References

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