colitis

English

Etymology

From col- +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlaɪtɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: co‧li‧tis

Noun

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

Derived terms

• colitogenic
• enterocolitis
• gastrocolitis
• gastroenterocolitis
• hemicolitis
• ileocolitis
• pancolitis
• proctocolitis
• rectocolitis
• spastic colitis
• ulcerative colitis

 

Translations

inflammation of the colon

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結腸炎 / 结肠炎 (jiéchángyán)

• Czech: kolitida f
• Finnish: paksunsuolen tulehdus
• French: colite (fr) f
• Italian: colite (it) f
• Malay: radang usus besar, kolitis
• Marathi: आंत्रशोथ m (āntraśoth)
• Portuguese: colite f
• Spanish: colitis (es) f
• Turkish: kolit (tr)

See also

• Crohn's disease
• irritable bowel syndrome

 

Anagrams

• solicit

Latin

Verb

colitis

1. second-person plural present active indicative of colō

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

colitis f (plural colitis)

1. colitis
2. diarrhea

   Synonym: diarrea

Further reading

• “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], 2024 December 10