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ULCERATIVE COLITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ulcerative colitis" is a kind of...):
colitis; inflammatory bowel disease (inflammation of the colon)
Context examples:
It may also be used to treat certain other conditions, such as Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis.
(Mercaptopurine, NCI Dictionary)
Inflammatory bowel disease includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease.
(Inflammatory bowel disease, NCI Dictionary)
Boswellia extract tablets have been employed for asthma, arthritic conditions and ulcerative colitis and other chronic inflammatory diseases.
(Boswellia serrata, NCI Thesaurus)
A morphologic finding indicating the presence of dysplastic epithelial changes in a large intestinal tissue sample that is affected by ulcerative colitis.
(Dysplasia in Ulcerative Colitis, 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)
Other common causes of fistulas include: • Complications from surgery • Injury • Infection • Diseases, such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis
(Fistulas, NIH)
It includes Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and colitis of indeterminate type.
(Inflammatory bowel disease, NCI Thesaurus)
It occurs in ulcerative colitis.
(Crypt Abscess, 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)
There are many possible causes of GI bleeding, including hemorrhoids, peptic ulcers, tears or inflammation in the esophagus, diverticulosis and diverticulitis, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, colonic polyps, or cancer in the colon, stomach or esophagus.
(Gastrointestinal Bleeding, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
