Crohn's disease

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Etymology

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

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Crohn's disease (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) Crohn’s regional enteritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus.
    • 1989, R. A. Cawson et al., Pathology: The mechanisms of disease, Mosby, page 333:
      Inexplicably the prevalence of Crohn's disease seems to be increasing in some parts of the world and declining in others.
    • 1993, Dorothy Beckley Doughty, Debra Broadwell Jackson, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Part 732, Mosby, page 108:
      Other systemic disorders associated with Crohn's disease include gallstones, kidney stones, osteoporosis, liver disorders, vascular problems, and psychiatric disorders.
    • 2001, Bruce R. Smoller, Thomas D. Horn, Dermatopathology in Systemic Disease, Oxford University Press, page 65:
      Patients with Crohn's disease can develop zinc deficiency and subsequent acrodermatitis enteropathica (Chapter 6).

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