ENTERITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enteritis mean? 

• ENTERITIS (noun)
  The noun ENTERITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the intestine (especially the small intestine); usually characterized by diarrhea

  Familiarity information: ENTERITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTERITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the intestine (especially the small intestine); usually characterized by diarrhea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("enteritis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enteritis"):

necrotizing enteritis (enteritis characterized by bloody diarrhea and severe abdominal pain)

 Context examples 

A nitrofuran antimicrobial agent used in the treatment of diarrhea or enteritis caused by bacteria or protozoan infections.

(Furazolidone, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Regional Enteritis, Regional enteritis, Regional ileitis

(Crohn's Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

C. lari is associated in recurrent gastroenteritis in children, causes septicemia and enteritis in immunodeficient patients and is commensal in healthy seagulls, birds, mussels and oysters.

(Campylobacter lari, NCI Thesaurus)

In sheep and cattle this bacterium is known to cause abortions, infertility, enteritis and bovine genital campylobacteriosis.

(Campylobacter fetus, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called regional enteritis.

(Crohn disease, NCI Dictionary)