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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Ileitis involving the terminal portion of the ileum and characterized by abdominal pain, ulceration, and fibrous tissue buildup.
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- noun pathology Crohn’s regional
enteritis , achronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of thedigestive tract from themouth to theanus .
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- noun a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Burrill Bernard Crohn, (1884–1983), American physician.]
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Eponym, Burrill Bernard Crohn.
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