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MUCOUS COLITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mucous colitis mean?
• MUCOUS COLITIS (noun)
The noun MUCOUS COLITIS has 1 sense:
1. recurrent abdominal pain and diarrhea (often alternating with periods of constipation); often associated with emotional stress
Familiarity information: MUCOUS COLITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recurrent abdominal pain and diarrhea (often alternating with periods of constipation); often associated with emotional stress
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
irritable bowel syndrome; mucous colitis; spastic colon
Hypernyms ("mucous colitis" is a kind of...):
colitis; inflammatory bowel disease (inflammation of the colon)
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