colitis

From col- +‎ -itis.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlaɪtɪs/

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• Hyphenation: co‧li‧tis

colitis (usually uncountable, plural colitides or colitises)

1. (pathology) inflammation of the colon.

   Synonym: colonitis

   • 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 1, →DOI, page 11:

     Peritoneal fluid was commonly found in acute colitides, particularly pseudomembranous, infectious, and ischemic colitides, and not in chronic IBD.

2. (medicine, informal) Ellipsis of ulcerative colitis.

   Crohn's disease and colitis

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colitis

1. second-person plural present active indicative of colō

• IPA^(key): /koˈlitis/ [koˈli.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: co‧li‧tis

colitis f (plural colitis)

1. (pathology) colitis
2. diarrhea

   Synonym: diarrea

• “colitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024