Functional gastrointestinal disorder include a number of separate idiopathic

Idiopathic

Idiopathic is an adjective used primarily in medicine meaning arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause. From Greek ἴδιος, idios + πάθος, pathos , it means approximately "a disease of its own kind". It is technically a term from nosology, the classification of disease...

 disorders which affect different part of the gastrointestinal tract

Gastrointestinal tract

The human gastrointestinal tract refers to the stomach and intestine, and sometimes to all the structures from the mouth to the anus. ....

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Classification

• Functional esophageal disorders
  • Functional heartburn
  • Functional chest pain of presumed esophageal origin
  • Functional dysphagia
  • Globus pharyngis
    Globus Pharyngis
    Globus pharyngis is the persistent sensation of having phlegm, a pill or some other sort of obstruction in the throat when there is none...
    
    
• Functional colonic disease
  • Functional constipation
    Functional constipation
    Functional constipation, known as chronic idiopathic constipation , is constipation that does not have a physical or physiological cause. It may have a neurological, psychological or psychosomatic cause...
    
    
  • Functional rectal pain

Diagnosis

The Rome process

Rome process

The "Rome process" is an international effort to create scientific data to help in the diagnosis and treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders, , such as irritable bowel syndrome, functional dyspepsia and rumination syndrome...

has helped to define the functional gastrointestinal disorders. Successively, the Rome I, Rome II and the Rome III meetings have proposed a consensual classification system and terminology, as recommended by the Rome Coordinating Committee.

Epidemiology

Functional gastrointestinal disorders have been found in 60-70% of both Canadian and America populations.