| English Dictionary |
REGIONAL ILEITIS
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
Dictionary entry overview: What does regional ileitis mean?
• REGIONAL ILEITIS (noun)
The noun REGIONAL ILEITIS has 1 sense:
1. a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss
Familiarity information: REGIONAL ILEITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Crohn's disease; regional enteritis; regional ileitis
Hypernyms ("regional ileitis" is a kind of...):
colitis; inflammatory bowel disease (inflammation of the colon)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Where there is heart, there are hands." (Albanian proverb)
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." (Arabic proverb)
"Once a horse is old, ticks and flies flock to it." (Corsican proverb)