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Colitis

//kəˈlaɪtɪs// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    inflammation of the colon. uncountable, usually

    "Peritoneal fluid was commonly found in acute colitides, particularly pseudomembranous, infectious, and ischemic colitides, and not in chronic IBD."

  2. 2
    inflammation of the colon wordnet
  3. 3
    Ellipsis of ulcerative colitis. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable, usually

    "Crohn's disease and colitis"

Etymology

From col- + -itis.

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