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
• Syn: ↑regional ileitis, ↑Crohn's disease
• Hypernyms: ↑colitis, ↑inflammatory bowel disease
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Pathol.
See Crohn's disease.
Also called regional ileitis.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.