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noun
Crohn’s regional enteritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: CD
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inflammatory bowel disease
noun
a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: regional enteritis, regional ileitis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: colitis, inflammatory bowel disease
History
Named after American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884–1983), who described patients with the condition in 1932.
Across languages
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