REGIONAL ENTERITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regional enteritis mean? 

• REGIONAL ENTERITIS (noun)
  The noun REGIONAL ENTERITIS has 1 sense:

1. a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss

  Familiarity information: REGIONAL ENTERITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGIONAL ENTERITIS (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Crohn's disease; regional enteritis; regional ileitis

Hypernyms ("regional enteritis" is a kind of...):

colitis; inflammatory bowel disease (inflammation of the colon)

 Context examples 

Also called regional enteritis.

(Crohn disease, NCI Dictionary)