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Crohn's disease

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

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

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  • 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

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Burrill Bernard Crohn, (1884–1983), American physician.]

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Eponym, Burrill Bernard Crohn.

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