Clinical Diagnosis · Digestive System · Easy
Colitis
Meaning: Inflammation of the large bowel, causing abdominal pain, diarrhoea and sometimes rectal bleeding.
In practice: Bloody diarrhoea and urgency led to a colonoscopy, which confirmed ulcerative colitis.
Word parts
- -itis means inflammation
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