Bowel diseases: controversial terminology problems and classification

Abstract

The article discusses the terminology of chronic bowel diseases, advantages and disadvantages of the terms "enteritis", "colitis", "enteropathy", and "colopathy". It is emphasized that upon functional diseases of the intestine there are always morphological changes explaining bowel disorders. According to etiology, pathogenesis, localization of the process, presence of clinical syndromes, a detailed classification of diseases of the small and large intestines is presented. The pathogenesis of bowel diseases is discussed corresponding to the names of certain pathologies.