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ulcerative colitis
noun
- chronic ulceration in the large intestine, characterized by painful abdominal cramps and profuse diarrhea containing pus, blood, and mucus.
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His health worsened — bad knees, diabetes and ulcerative colitis, according to court records — while he still tried to ply his trade.
Vaughn reports that he sees patients with Crohn’s disease get more of an effect from cannabis than those with ulcerative colitis.
A study in a 2015 issue of the journal Gastroenterology found that a significantly greater percentage of patients with active ulcerative colitis who were treated with FMT experienced remission, compared with those who were given a placebo.
My 16-year-old daughter was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.
It may result from any form of enteritis as simple, mucous and ulcerative colitis, or an intestinal malignant growth.
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