Word.ws English Dictionary

short bowel syndrome

short bowel syndrome noun: a rare malabsorption disorder caused by a lack of functional small intestine.

Noun

short bowel syndrome (uncountable)

  1. A rare malabsorption disorder caused by a lack of functional small intestine.

Questions about short bowel syndrome

What does short bowel syndrome mean?
Short bowel syndrome means a rare malabsorption disorder caused by a lack of functional small intestine.
What part of speech is short bowel syndrome?
Short bowel syndrome is a noun.

Words near short bowel syndrome in the dictionary

  1. short blacks
  2. short block
  3. short blocks
  4. short bond
  5. short bond paper
  6. short bowel syndrome
  7. short break
  8. short breaks
  9. short bus
  10. short buses
  11. short change

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: short bowel syndrome (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “short bowel syndrome.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/short_bowel_syndrome. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.