INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inflammatory bowel disease mean? 

• INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (noun)
  The noun INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the colon

  Familiarity information: INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the colon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

colitis; inflammatory bowel disease

Hypernyms ("inflammatory bowel disease" 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 "inflammatory bowel disease"):

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 

Inflammatory bowel disease is an illness that covers conditions that include Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

(Fasting-Like Diets May Reverse Gut Inflammation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is one of a group of diseases called inflammatory bowel disease.

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

It is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

(Crohn disease, NCI Dictionary)

They note that previous studies linked antibiotic treatment during infancy with allergies, psoriasis, obesity, diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease later in life.

(Prolonged antibiotic treatment may alter preterm infants’ microbiome, National Institutes of Health)

D. piger has mostly been isolated from human clinical specimens and may be associated with inflammatory bowel disease.

(Desulfovibrio piger, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in this gene are associated with inflammatory bowel disease 28, early onset, autosomal recessive.

(IL10RA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It may arise in a background of inflammatory bowel disease or colitis.

(Colon Inflammatory Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples of non-infectious inflammatory disorders include inflammatory bowel disease and inflammatory polyps.

(Inflammatory Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include acute appendicitis, colitis, and inflammatory bowel disease.

(Non-Neoplastic Intestinal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

It may be idiopathic or the result of drug treatment, infections, food intake, collagen vascular disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, or cancer.

(Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis, NCI Thesaurus)