Anatom3DGastrointestinal tract
Tractus gastrointestinalis · Trávicí trubice
Digestive system
Looks like
A 7-metre muscular tube from gullet to anus, coiled in the abdomen, lined by a renewing surface.
What it does
Breaks food down, absorbs it, and moves the rest along.
Keeping it well
Fibre, water, regular meals, movement. Blood in the stool, or a lasting change in bowel habit, needs investigation.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Achalasia
- Acid reflux (GERD)
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia (gut stroke)
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Appendicitis
- B12 & folate deficiency
- Barrett's oesophagus
- Botulism
- Bowel obstruction
- Candida & fungal infection
- Chagas disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic constipation
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Clostridioides difficile colitis
- Coeliac disease
- Colon polyps
- Colorectal cancer
- Crohn's disease
- Diverticular disease
- Eating disorders
- Eosinophilic oesophagitis
- Fibromyalgia
- Food poisoning
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Functional dyspepsia (indigestion)
- Gallstones
- Gastritis
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Gastroparesis
- Giardiasis
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hereditary cancer syndromes (BRCA, Lynch)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hyperemesis gravidarum
- Infant colic
- Intestinal worms & schistosomiasis
- Intussusception & pyloric stenosis
- Iron deficiency
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Ischaemic colitis
- Lactose & food intolerance
- Liver abscess (pyogenic and amoebic)
- Lyme disease
- Mallory–Weiss tear
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Microscopic colitis
- Motion sickness
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Neuroendocrine tumours (carcinoid)
- Oesophageal cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Pancreatitis
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rabies
- Radiation injury
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)
- Stomach cancer
- Tetanus
- Typhoid & cholera
- Ulcerative colitis
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Volvulus (twisted bowel)