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Noun: Crohn's disease
  1. A serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhoea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss
    - regional enteritis, regional ileitis

Type of: colitis, inflammatory bowel disease

Encyclopedia: Crohn's disease