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IBD

IBD is the initialism of inflammatory bowel disease.

IBD is the initialism of identical by descent.

Meaning of inflammatory bowel disease

Noun

inflammatory bowel disease (countable and uncountable, plural inflammatory bowel diseases)

  1. Any of several gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders, forms of colitis (and sometimes also ileocolitis) not resulting from an infection.
    • Inflammatory bowel disease is often of an autoimmune nature.
    Synonyms:
    IBD

Meaning of identical by descent

Adjective

identical by descent (not comparable)

  1. Of corresponding segments of a chromosome in different individuals, identical because they were inherited from a common ancestor without crossover.

Questions about IBD

What is IBD the initialism of?
IBD is the initialism of inflammatory bowel disease.

Words near IBD in the dictionary

  1. Ibbott
  2. IBBs
  3. IBC
  4. IBCA
  5. IBCs
  6. IBD
  7. Ibe
  8. ibedul
  9. ibeduls
  10. Ibell
  11. iberdomide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: IBD (page history and authors); inflammatory bowel disease (page history and authors); identical by descent (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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