CELIAC DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does celiac disease mean? 

• CELIAC DISEASE (noun)
  The noun CELIAC DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a disorder in children and adults; inability to tolerate wheat protein (gluten); symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation; often accompanied by lactose intolerance

  Familiarity information: CELIAC DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELIAC DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder in children and adults; inability to tolerate wheat protein (gluten); symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation; often accompanied by lactose intolerance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("celiac disease" is a kind of...):

disorder; upset (a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning)

 Context examples 

Patients with celiac disease had higher levels of reovirus antibodies than controls.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

Celiac disease is an immune disease in which people can't eat gluten because it will damage their small intestine.

(Celiac Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

A person with celiac disease may become malnourished no matter how much food is consumed.

(Celiac Disease, NCI Dictionary)

Unlike celiac sprue (celiac disease), a gluten-free diet does not predict a certain regression of the disease.

(Collagenous Sprue, NCI Thesaurus)

Variant alleles generated from mutations in the gene, have been associated with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, Graves disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis, celiac disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, thyroid-associated orbitopathy, and other autoimmune diseases.

(CTLA4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It is seen with increased frequency in regions with a high prevalence of celiac disease.

(Enteropathy-Associated T-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Diagnosis of celiac disease at a later age despite an asymptomatic clinical course.

(Latent Celiac Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Intestinal cancer is rare, but eating a high-fat diet or having Crohn's disease, celiac disease, or a history of colonic polyps can increase your risk.

(Intestinal Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

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)

Certain genes and other factors, such as things in the environment, can lead to celiac disease.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)