INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the colon

Synonyms:

colitis; inflammatory bowel disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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)

Credits

Context examples:

Inflammatory bowel disease includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease.

(Inflammatory bowel disease, NCI Dictionary)

It is more frequently seen in populations with a Western type diet and in patients with a history of chronic inflammatory bowel disease.

(Cecum Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is usually seen during exacerbations of inflammatory bowel disease.

(Chronic Active Colitis, NCI Thesaurus)

A research team wondered whether chemicals that disrupt this mucus barrier might alter the gut microbiota and play a role in disorders associated with inflammation, including inflammatory bowel disease and metabolic syndrome.

(Food Additives Alter Gut Microbes, Cause Diseases in Mice, NIH)

The investigators found that EBNA2 bound to genes associated with the risk for multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, type 1 diabetes, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and celiac disease.

(Epstein-Barr virus protein can “switch on” risk genes for autoimmune diseases, National Institutes of Health)

Balsalazide disodium is used to treat chronic inflammatory bowel disease.

(Balsalazide Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease – collectively known as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) – are chronic conditions that involve inflammation of the gut.

(New prognostic test could enable personalised treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, University of Cambridge)

C. upsaliensis is a pathogen associated with gastroenteritis, acute watery diarrhea, septicemia, abscesses, inflammatory bowel disease, periodontitis and bacteremia in normal hosts and in those with opportunistic infections in immunocompromised individuals or HIV infected patients.

(Campylobacter upsaliensis, NCI Thesaurus)

A study led by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is the first to observe the complex set of biochemical and molecular events that disrupt the microbiome and trigger immune responses during flare-ups of inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

(New findings reveal how microbiome is disrupted during disease flare-ups, National Science Foundation)