Glossary for Chronic digestive diseases

Bowel conditions: Medical conditions that affect the bowels
Celiac Disease: Digestive intolerance to gluten in the diet.
Colon conditions: Any condition affecting the colon
Crohn's disease: Crohn's disease causes inflammation of the digestive system. It is one of a group of diseases called inflammatory bowel disease. The disease can affect any area from the mouth to the anus. It often affects the lower part of the small intestine called the ileum.
Cystic Fibrosis: Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease affecting the exocrine (mucus) glands of the lungs, liver, pancreas, and intestines, causing progressive disability due to multisystem failure.
Diabetic Diarrhea: Diarrhea that occurs in diabetics as a result of the damage done by diabetes to the digestive system. Digestive system damage is caused by intestinal neuropathy (damage to intestinal nerves) or bacterial overgrowth or both.
Diabetic Gastroparesis: Gastroparesis is a diabetic complication that occurs from neuropathy of the stomach nerve (called the "vagus nerve"). This causes digestive difficulties as the food starts to move too slowly through the stomach.
Digestive Diseases: Diseases that affect the digestive system
Diverticular Disease: Protrusions of the colon wall (diverticulosis) or their inflammation (diverticulitis)
Gallstones: Stone-like deposits in the gall bladder.
Hemorrhoids: Swollen blood vessels around the anus.
Inflammatory bowel disease: Any type of digestive condition caused by bowel inflammation.
Intestinal Conditions: Conditions that affect the intestines
Irritable bowel syndrome: Spasms in the colon wall
Pancreatic cancer: Pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas
Peptic Ulcer: Ulcer on the lining of the stomach or duodenum
Rapid gastric emptying: Dumping of undigested food from the stomach into intestine.
Small Intestine Cancer: Cancer of the small intestine.
Stomach Conditions: Any condition that affects a persons stomach
Stomach cancer: Stomach or gastric cancer can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs
Ulcerative colitis: Ulcerative colitis (Colitis ulcerosa, UC) is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Ulcerative colitis is a form of colitis, a disease of the intestine, specifically the large intestine or colon, that includes characteristic ulcers, or open sores, in the colon.