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REGIONAL ILEITIS
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I. (noun)
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
Synonyms:
Crohn's disease; regional enteritis; regional ileitis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("regional ileitis" is a kind of...):
colitis; inflammatory bowel disease (inflammation of the colon)