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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Ileitis involving the terminal portion of the ileum and characterized by abdominal pain, ulceration, and fibrous tissue buildup.

Wiktionary

  1. n. pathology Crohn’s regional enteritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss

Etymologies

  1. Eponym, Burrill Bernard Crohn. (Wiktionary)
  2. After Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884-1983), American physician. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. inflammatory bowel disease
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