enterocolitis

English

Etymology

From entero- +‎ colitis.

Noun

enterocolitis (usually uncountable, plural enterocolitides)

1. (medicine) Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the small intestine and of the colon.
   • 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:

     Idiopathic IBD also must be differentiated from infectious, ischemic, and radiation enterocolitides.

Anagrams

• coloenteritis

Spanish

Etymology

From entero- +‎ colitis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enteɾokoˈlitis/ [ẽn̪.t̪e.ɾo.koˈli.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -itis
• Syllabification: en‧te‧ro‧co‧li‧tis

Noun

enterocolitis f (uncountable)

1. (pathology) enterocolitis

Further reading

• “enterocolitis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014