gastroenterology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “belly”) + Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía). By surface analysis, gastro- +‎ enterology.

Noun

gastroenterology (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The study of the digestive system, from the mouth to the anus; may also include the study of accessory organs: pancreas, liver, gallbladder and bile ducts.

Derived terms

• hepatogastroenterology

 

Related terms

• gastroenterologist

Translations

the study of the digestive system

• Albanian: gastroenterologjia f
• Armenian: գաստրոէնտերոլոգիա (gastroēnterologia)
• Asturian: gastroenteroloxía f
• Azerbaijani: qastroenterologiya
• Basque: gastroenterologia
• Belarusian: гастраэнтэралогія f (hastraenteralóhija)
• Bengali: পাকান্ত্রবিদ্যা (pakantrobidda)
• Bulgarian: гастроентерология f (gastroenterologija)
• Catalan: gastroenterologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腸胃科／肠胃科 (chángwèikē), 胃腸學／胃肠学 (wèichángxué)

• Czech: gastroenterologie (cs) f
• Danish: gastroenterologi c
• Dutch: gastro-enterologie f
• Esperanto: gastroenterologio
• Finnish: gastroenterologia (fi)
• French: gastro-entérologie (fr) f
• Galician: gastroenteroloxía f
• Georgian: გასტროენტეროლოგია (gasṭroenṭerologia)
• German: Gastroenterologie f
• Greek: γαστρεντερολογία (el) f (gastrenterología)
• Hindi: जठरांत्ररोगविज्ञान (jaṭhrāntrarogvijñān)
• Hungarian: gasztroenterológia (hu)
• Ido: gastroenterologio (io)
• Indonesian: gastroenterologi (id)
• Irish: gaistreintreolaíocht f
• Japanese: 胃腸病学 (いちょうびょうがく, ichōbyōgaku)
• Javanese: gastroenterologi
• Kannada: ಗ್ಯಾಸ್ಟ್ರೊಎಂಟೊರಾಲಾಜಿ (gyāsṭroeṇṭorālāji)
• Korean: 위장병학 (wijangbyeonghak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ûrkûrîvîkzanî

• Kyrgyz: гастроэнтерология (gastroenterologiya)
• Latvian: gastroenteroloģija f
• Lithuanian: gastroenterologija f
• Luxembourgish: Gastroenterologie f
• Macedonian: гастроентерологија f (gastroenterologija)
• Malay: gastroenterologi
• Newar: ग्यास्त्रोएन्टेरोलोजी (gyāstroenṭerolojī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gastroenterologi m

  Nynorsk: gastroenterologi m

• Pali: ग्यास्त्रोएन्टेरोलोजी (gyāstroenṭerolojī)
• Polish: gastroenterologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: gastroenterologia f, gastrenterologia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਗੈਸਟ੍ਰੋਐਂਟਰਾਲੋਜੀ (gaisṭroaiṇṭarālojī)
• Romanian: gastroenterologie (ro) f
• Russian: гастроэнтероло́гия (ru) f (gastroenterológija)
• Sanskrit: ग्यास्त्रोएन्टेरोलोजी (gyāstroenṭerolojī)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гастроентероло̀гија f

  Roman: gastroenterològija (sh) f

• Slovak: gastroenterológia f
• Slovene: gastroenterologija f
• Spanish: gastroenterología f
• Swedish: gastroenterologi c
• Tagalog: gastroenterolohiya
• Thai: วิทยาทางเดินอาหาร (wít-tá-yaa taang dern aa-hăan)
• Turkish: gastroenteroloji (tr)
• Turkmen: gastroenterologiýa
• Ukrainian: гастроентероло́гія f (hastroenterolóhija)
• Uzbek: gastroenterologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: khoa tiêu hóa