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regional enteritis

NOUN
  1. a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss

How To Use regional enteritis In A Sentence

  • It is caused by the bacterium Lawsonia intracellularis, and is more accurately described as regional enteritis or proliferative ileitis .
  • The diagnosis remains one of exclusion because underlying conditions such as diabetes or regional enteritis may produce similar symptoms.
  • I have seen positive tests in either leg in regional enteritis, and in the left leg in colonic diverticulitis.
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