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Crohn's disease en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884–1983), who described patients with the condition in 1932.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Crohn’s regional enteritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus.
    • Other systemic disorders associated with Crohn's disease include gallstones, kidney stones, osteoporosis, liver disorders, vascular problems, and psychiatric disorders. 1993, Dorothy Beckley Doughty, Debra Broadwell Jackson, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Part 732, Mosby, page 108:
    • Patients with Crohn's disease can develop zinc deficiency and subsequent acrodermatitis enteropathica (Chapter 6). 2001, Bruce R. Smoller, Thomas D. Horn, Dermatopathology in Systemic Disease, Oxford University Press, page 65:
    • 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:

Coordinates

ulcerative colitis

Hypernyms

inflammatory bowel disease

Relateds

irritable bowel syndrome · IBS

Synonyms

CD

Translations (19)

cmn 克羅恩病 /克罗恩病 (chronic inflammatory disease) · ca malaltia de Crohn (chronic inflammatory disease) · nl ziekte van Crohn (chronic inflammatory disease) · ro boala Crohn (chronic inflammatory disease) · ja クローン病 (chronic inflammatory disease) · tr Crohn hastalığı (chronic inflammatory disease) · de Morbus Crohn (chronic inflammatory disease) · it malattia di Crohn (chronic inflammatory disease) · ga galar Crohn (chronic inflammatory disease) · es enfermedad de Crohn (chronic inflammatory disease) · ko 크론병 (chronic inflammatory disease) · pl choroba Crohna (chronic inflammatory disease) · fr maladie de Crohn (chronic inflammatory disease) · cs Crohnova choroba (chronic inflammatory disease) · cmn 克隆氏症 (chronic inflammatory disease) · bg бо́лест на Крон (chronic inflammatory disease) · ru боле́знь Кро́на (chronic inflammatory disease) · fi Crohnin tauti (chronic inflammatory disease) · it morbo di Crohn (chronic inflammatory disease)