coeliac disease

English

Alternative forms

• celiac disease (US)

Pronunciation

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Noun

coeliac disease (uncountable)

1. (UK) An auto-immune disease characterised by sensitivity of the lining of the small intestine to gluten, causing a failure to digest food properly.

Synonyms

• non-tropical sprue, coeliac sprue, gluten-sensitive enteropathy

Translations

auto-immune disease characterised by sensitivity of the lining of the small intestine to gluten

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳糜洩 / 乳糜泄 (rǔmíxiè), 乳糜瀉 / 乳糜泻 (rǔmíxiè)

• Czech: celiakie f
• Danish: cøliaki
• Dutch: coeliakie (nl)
• Esperanto: celiakio
• Estonian: tsöliaakia
• Faroese: kálksótt f
• Finnish: keliakia (fi)
• French: maladie cœliaque (fr) f, cœliaquie (fr) f
• German: Zöliakie (de) f
• Hebrew: כרסת (he)
• Hungarian: lisztérzékenység (hu), cöliákia (hu), gluténszenzitív enteropátia
• Italian: celiachia (it) f
• Japanese: セリアック病 (seriakku byō)
• Polish: celiakia (pl) f, choroba trzewna f
• Portuguese: doença celíaca f
• Romanian: celiachie f
• Russian: целиаки́я (ru) (celiakíja)
• Slovak: celiakia f
• Slovene: celiakija f
• Spanish: celiaquía (es) f
• Swedish: glutenintolerans (sv), celiaki (sv) c
• Turkish: çölyak hastalığı (tr)
• Urdu: مرض سیلیئک

See also

• sprue