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ulcerative colitides

ulcerative colitides is the plural of ulcerative colitis.

Meaning of ulcerative colitis

Noun

ulcerative colitis (usually uncountable, plural ulcerative colitides)

  1. (usually) A chronic disease, characterized by abdominal pain and diarrhea mixed with blood, that results in inflammation and ulcers of the colon and rectum; one of the two main types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
    • Submucosal thickening further contributes to luminal narrowing. Additionally, the lamina propria is thickened because of round-cell infiltration in both acute and chronic ulcerative colitides [7, 12].1996 July, Richard M. Gore, Emil J. Balthazar, Gary G. Ghahremani, Frank H. Miller, “CT Features of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease”, in American Journal of Roentgenology, volume 167, number...
    Synonyms:
    UC

Questions about ulcerative colitides

What is ulcerative colitides the plural of?
Ulcerative colitides is the plural of ulcerative colitis.

Words near ulcerative colitides in the dictionary

  1. ulcerating granuloma of the pudendum
  2. ulcerating sclerosing granuloma
  3. ulceration
  4. ulcerations
  5. ulcerative
  6. ulcerative colitides
  7. ulcerative colitis
  8. ulcerative gingivitis
  9. ulceratory
  10. ulcered
  11. ulceriferous

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