inflammatory bowel disease

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   inflammation of the colon

   Synonymscolitis

   Broaderinflammation

   Narrowerregional enteritisirritable bowel syndromeulcerative colitis

Questions about inflammatory bowel disease

What does inflammatory bowel disease mean?

inflammatory bowel disease means "inflammation of the colon".

What is another word for inflammatory bowel disease?

Close synonyms include colitis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inflammatory bowel disease a common word?

inflammatory bowel disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.