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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
colitis
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ Patients with active colitis were colonised less frequently and with lower numbers of E coli than were control patients.
▪ We elected to include this patient in the study since the entire remaining right colon had active ulcerative colitis.
▪ Twenty two had active colitis at the time serum was obtained.
▪ These findings are consistent with decreased transit in the proximal and rapid transit through the sigmoid colon in patients with active colitis.
▪ These cells infiltrate into the colonic mucosa and are abundant during the active phase of colitis.
▪ Patients with active colitis were reexamined after three and 12 weeks of treatment.
▪ The fact that patients with active colitis were more affected than those with quiescent disease in Roediger's studies could reflect this.
▪ Patients with active colitis had clinical symptoms of urgency, loose stools, abdominal pain, and blood in the stool.
indeterminate
▪ Originally only four patients were classified as having definite Crohn's disease and 15 as indeterminate colitis leaving 62 with ulcerative colitis.
▪ There was no significant increased complication rate or disturbed pouch function in those with indeterminate colitis.
▪ Inevitably patients with Crohn's disease or indeterminate colitis will from time to time have restorative proctocolectomy.
▪ Seven patients with definite Crohn's disease, seven with indeterminate colitis and 52 with typical ulcerative colitis have a functioning pouch.
ulcerative
▪ Further investigations are needed to determine if also this aberration is specific for ulcerative colitis.
▪ There was little evidence to support the presence of a primary defect in the colonic barrier in patients with ulcerative colitis.
▪ Serum concentration of interleukin-6 are also raised in active Crohn's disease but surprisingly not in ulcerative colitis.
▪ The pathophysiological importance of the ulcerative colitis associated perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies is still poorly understood.
▪ It has been further postulated that pouchitis represents a recurrence of ulcerative colitis in reservoirs with colonic metaplasia.
▪ Immunological abnormalities are generally accepted to be involved in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis.
▪ There has recently been a revival of interest in changes in colonic motility in ulcerative colitis.
▪ Circulating anticolon antibodies have been found in serum samples from patients with ulcerative colitis.
■ NOUN
patient
▪ In a group of 37 ulcerative colitis patients, however, no effect of medication was found.
▪ Evidence has accumulated that several autoimmune phenomena are present in ulcerative colitis patients.
▪ The presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in unaffected family members of ulcerative colitis patients favours this view.
▪ Epithelial and lamina propria mononuclear cells were isolated from surgical specimens from control, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis patients.
▪ In conclusion, our study confirms that perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies are indeed demonstrable in the large majority of ulcerative colitis patients.
▪ One hundred and twenty ulcerative colitis patients, 105 Crohn's disease patients and 49 controls were studied.
▪ Ulcerative colitis patients Nineteen patients with ulcerative colitis undergoing colectomy were also studied.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assessment of intestinal permeability in ulcerative colitis after the ingestion of various markers has yielded conflicting results.
▪ Bismuth enemas may offer a new therapeutic option in distal ulcerative colitis.
▪ Nineteen patients had left sided colitis and five patients had more extensive or total colitis.
▪ Platelet activating factor may be involved in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis as well as in experimental colitis.
▪ Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis.
▪ The pathogenesis of benign stricture formation in ulcerative colitis remains uncertain.
▪ The study included pairs of twins both concordant and discordant with regard to ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease.
▪ Twelve patients with ulcerative colitis had mild, 19 moderate, and 10 severe attacks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colitis

Colitis \Co*li"tis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? + -itis.] (Med.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colitis

1860, from comb. form of colon (n.2) + -itis.

Wiktionary
colitis

n. (context pathology English) inflammation of the colon.

WordNet
colitis

n. inflammation of the colon [syn: inflammatory bowel disease]

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Wikipedia
Colitis

Colitis ( pl. colitides) refers to an inflammation of the colon.

Colitis may be acute and self-limited or chronic, i.e. persistent, and broadly fits into the category of digestive diseases.

In a medical context, the label colitis (without qualification) is used if:

  • The cause of the inflammation in the colon is undetermined; for example, colitis may be applied to Crohn's disease at a time when the diagnosis is unknown, or
  • The context is clear; for example, an individual with ulcerative colitis is talking about their disease with a physician who knows the diagnosis.
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Being so physically disabled, especially with heart disease, brain damage, asthma, ulcers, or colitis, that you require medical supervision and approval before undergoing stress of moderate intensity.

Sometimes this fatigue is combined with some serious physical problem--arthritis, colitis, multiple sclerosis--and must have medical attention.

The nurse had just left the ward, her arms full of the diabetic's toffees, the duodenal ulcer's iced buns and the bunch of bananas given to a nasty case of colitis, when there was a loud rumbling which became a roar of sound as one side of the ward seemed to shake and quiver and become submerged in a cloud of dust and broken glass and falling plaster.

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