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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A chronic disorder of the gastrointestinal tract, especially Crohn's disease or an ulcerative form of colitis, characterized by inflammation of the intestine and resulting in abdominal cramping and persistent diarrhea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. inflammation of the colon
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“A genome-wide association study identifies IL23R as an inflammatory bowel disease gene.”
“Probiotic Lactobacillus spp. diminish Helicobacter hepaticus–induced inflammatory bowel disease in interleukin-10-deficient mice.”
“This pattern began in the late 1980s, when Wakefield, a Canadian-trained surgeon then in his early thirties, challenged the conventional thinking about a debilitating and incurable inflammatory bowel disease IBD called Crohn’s disease.”
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