Crohn's disease

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Etymology

Named after gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn, who described patients with the condition in 1932.

Noun

Crohn’s disease (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) Crohn’s regional enteritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus.

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