chronic noninflammatory disease characterized by abdominal pain, altered bowel habits consisting of diarrhea or constipation or both, and no detectable pathologic change; a variant form is characterized by painless diarrhea; it is a common disorder with a psychophysiologic basis; called also spastic or irritable colon.
Functional disorder of the colon that is generally psychosomatic.
Also applicable to/known as
Irritable colon
Spastic colon
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index Entries That Refer To 564.1