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Whereas colitis occurs in the lining of the colon, Crohn’s affects the entire GI tract.
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Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
The giant inflatable colon helps illustrate health issues that can impact the critical organ, including colon cancer, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis, colitis, internal hemorrhoids and polyps and how colonoscopy screenings can help detect them.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
Such a complication in the colon, called colitis, can be life-threatening, Davies said.
—Erika Edwards, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2024
The vascular surgeon who calls at 11:45 p.m. says, after reading her father’s most recent CT angiogram, that the diffuse colitis was likely caused by mesenteric ischemia, which was caused by a thrombosis of the false lumen of an SMA dissection.
—Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
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Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
The giant inflatable colon helps illustrate health issues that can impact the critical organ, including colon cancer, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis, colitis, internal hemorrhoids and polyps and how colonoscopy screenings can help detect them.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
Such a complication in the colon, called colitis, can be life-threatening, Davies said.
—Erika Edwards, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2024
The vascular surgeon who calls at 11:45 p.m. says, after reading her father’s most recent CT angiogram, that the diffuse colitis was likely caused by mesenteric ischemia, which was caused by a thrombosis of the false lumen of an SMA dissection.
—Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
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“Colitis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colitis. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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colitis
noun
co·li·tis
kō-ˈlīt-əs, kə- 
: inflammation of the colon see ulcerative colitis
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