ILEITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ileitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the ileum

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILEITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the ileum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("ileitis" 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)

 Context examples 

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

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