Congenital Abnormality
intestinal duplication
in·tes·ti·nal du·pli·ca·tion
Definitions related to intestinal duplication:
  • A developmental disorder in which there is a duplication the entire intestine or of a portion of the intestine.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • A rare congenital abnormality characterized by the presence of a duplicated segment of the intestine. The duplicated segment is cystic.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Intestinal duplications are tubular structures that are attached to the intestines and share a common blood supply; their lining resembles that of the gastrointestinal tract. Duplications can be cystic or tubular depending on their length.
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
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