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Crohn's

Crohn's is the ellipsis of Crohn's disease.

Meaning of Crohn's disease

Noun

Crohn's disease (uncountable)

  1. Crohn’s regional enteritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus.
    • Inexplicably the prevalence of Crohn's disease seems to be increasing in some parts of the world and declining in others.1989, R. A. Cawson et al., Pathology: The mechanisms of disease, Mosby, page 333
    Synonyms:
    CD

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Questions about Crohn's

What is Crohn's the ellipsis of?
Crohn's is the ellipsis of Crohn's disease.

Words near Crohn's in the dictionary

  1. croggling
  2. croggy
  3. Croghan
  4. Croghans
  5. Crohn
  6. Crohn's
  7. Crohn's disease
  8. Crohnie
  9. Crohnies
  10. croiffin
  11. croiffle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Crohn's (page history and authors); Crohn's disease (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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