diarrhea
loose or liquid bowel movements
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Summary
diarrhea is a class of disease[1]. diarrhea ranks in the top 4% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,705 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
- Subclass of: gastrointestinal system disease[4], clinical sign[5], feces and droppings symptom[6]
- Commons category: Diarrhea[7]
- ICPC 2 ID: D11[8]
- Has cause: Rotavirus[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Diarrhea[10]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[15], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4[16]
- ICD-9-CM: 787.91[17], 009.2[18]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C2987[19]
- Health specialty: infectious diseases[20], gastroenterology[21]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: carbonic acid[22], lidamidine[23], oral rehydration therapy[24]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13250[25], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13250[26], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000570[27]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[28]
Why It Matters
diarrhea has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] diarrhea is known by 114 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]