COLITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the colon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the colon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

colitis; inflammatory bowel disease

Hypernyms ("colitis" 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 "colitis"):

Crohn's disease; regional enteritis; regional ileitis (a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss)

irritable bowel syndrome; mucous colitis; spastic colon (recurrent abdominal pain and diarrhea (often alternating with periods of constipation); often associated with emotional stress)

ulcerative colitis (a serious chronic inflammatory disease of the large intestine and rectum characterized by recurrent episodes of abdominal pain and fever and chills and profuse diarrhea)

 Context examples 

Also called irritable bowel syndrome, irritable colon, mucus colitis, and spastic colon.

(IBS, NCI Dictionary)

Inflammatory bowel disease includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease.

(Inflammatory bowel disease, NCI Dictionary)

It includes Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and colitis of indeterminate type.

(Inflammatory bowel disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Other common causes of fistulas include: • Complications from surgery • Injury • Infection • Diseases, such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis

(Fistulas, NIH)

Grossly, these lesions present as polyps, plaques, or patches in areas affected by ulcerative colitis.

(Dysplasia-Associated Lesion or Mass, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of dysplastic epithelial changes in a large intestinal tissue sample that is affected by ulcerative colitis.

(Dysplasia in Ulcerative Colitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called IBS, irritable colon, mucus colitis, and spastic colon.

(Irritable Bowel Syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

Also called IBS, irritable bowel syndrome, mucus colitis, and spastic colon.

(Irritable colon, NCI Dictionary)

Mutation of the gene is associated with Blau syndrome, Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis, and early-onset sarcoidosis.

(NOD2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Olsalazine sodium is bioconverted to 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) in the colon by colonic bacteria. 5-ASA has anti-inflammatory activity in ulcerative colitis.

(Olsalazine Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)