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Any of several gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders, forms of colitis (and sometimes also ileocolitis) not resulting from an infection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
Examples
- Inflammatory bowel disease is often of an autoimmune nature.
- Treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases has improved as human understanding of molecular biology has advanced.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: IBD
Antonyms: none provided
inflammation of the colon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colitis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inflammation, redness, rubor
Narrower terms: regional enteritis, regional ileitis, Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, spastic colon, mucous colitis, ulcerative colitis
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
炎症性腸病 /炎症性肠病
(yánzhèngxìng chángbìng)
— inflammatory disorder
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Finnish:
tulehduksellinen suolistosairaus
— inflammatory disorder
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French:
maladie inflammatoire chronique de l'intestin
— inflammatory disorder
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German:
chronisch-entzündliche Darmerkrankung
— inflammatory disorder
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Hungarian:
gyulladásos bélbetegség
— inflammatory disorder
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Polish:
nieswoiste zapalenie jelit
— inflammatory disorder
