Ulcerative Colitis

Introduction: Ulcerative Colitis

Description of Ulcerative Colitis

Ulcerative Colitis (medical condition): Ulcerative colitis is a chronic, ongoing disease of the lower digestive or gastrointestinal (GI) tract. ...more

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Ulcerative Colitis: Chronic inflammation of the colon that produces ulcers in its lining. This condition is marked by abdominal pain, cramps, and loose discharges of pus, blood, and mucus from the bowel.
Source: National Institute of Health

Ulcerative Colitis: a serious chronic inflammatory disease of the large intestine and rectum characterized by recurrent episodes of abdominal pain and fever and chills and profuse diarrhea.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Ulcerative Colitis: chronic, recurrent ulceration of the colon mucosa and submucosa.
Source: Diseases Database

Ulcerative Colitis: chronic, recurrent ulceration of the colon mucosa and submucosa.
Source: CRISP

Ulcerative Colitis: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Ulcerative Colitis:

• Ulcerative
• Colitis
• Cause
• Ulceration
• Colon
• Colon symptoms (15 causes)
• Colon disease
• Colon disorder
• Rectum
• Rectum symptoms (88 causes)

Ulcerative Colitis: Rare Disease

Ophanet

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when if affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Ulcerative Colitis as a "rare disease".

Source - Orphanet

Ulcerative Colitis as a Disease

Ulcerative Colitis (medical condition): See Ulcerative colitis (disease information).
  »Introduction: Ulcerative colitis
  »Symptoms of Ulcerative colitis
  »Causes of Ulcerative colitis
  »Treatments for Ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative Colitis: Related Diseases

Ulcerative Colitis: Ulcerative Colitis is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Digestive Diseases
• Chronic digestive diseases
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Possibly autoimmune diseases
• Intestinal Conditions
• Chronic Pain Syndromes
• Bowel conditions
• Colon conditions
• Intestine conditions
• Abdominal conditions
• Chronic digestive conditions
• Mucus membrane conditions
• Non-pathogenic inflammatory conditions
• Digestive conditions

Ulcerative Colitis: Article Excerpts

Ulcerative colitis is a disease that causes inflammation and sores, called ulcers, in the top layers... (Source: excerpt from Ulcerative Colitis: NIDDK)

Ulcerative colitis is a disease that causes inflammation and sores, called ulcers, in the top layers of... (Source: excerpt from Ulcerative Colitis: NIDDK)

More information on medical condition: Ulcerative colitis:

• Information about Ulcerative colitis
• Basic Summary for Ulcerative colitis
• Causes of Ulcerative colitis
• Symptoms of Ulcerative colitis
• Complications of Ulcerative colitis
• Diagnostic Tests for Ulcerative colitis
• Misdiagnosis of Ulcerative colitis
• Treatments for Ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative Colitis: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Ulcerative Colitis:

• colonic inflammation
• rectal inflammation
• toxic megacolon
• ileus
• diverticulitis
• primary sclerosing cholangitis
• rectal bleeding
• bloody bowel movements

Terms associated with Ulcerative Colitis:

Broader terms for Ulcerative Colitis

• colitis
• inflammatory bowel disease

Source - CRISP

• colitis
• inflammatory bowel disease

Source - WordNet 2.1

The description of Ulcerative Colitis may also be used for the following terms:

• autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Ulcerative Colitis

The following list attempts to classify Ulcerative Colitis into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• colitis,inflammatory bowel disease
• inflammation,redness,rubor
• symptom
• evidence,grounds
• information
• cognition,knowledge,noesis
• psychological feature

Source: WordNet 2.1

External links related to: Ulcerative Colitis

• Ulcerative Colitis - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• Oral 5-aminosalicylic acid for induction of remission in ulcerative colitis (Cochrane Review)
• OMIM - ULCERATIVE COLITIS, SUSCEPTIBILITY TO
• ulcerative colitis (UC) - General Practice Notebook
• eMedicine - Ulcerative Colitis : Article by Jonathan Markowitz, MD
• Cyclosporine A for induction of remission in severe ulcerative colitis (Cochrane Review)
• COCHRANE INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE GROUP abstracts
• Strategies for detecting colon cancer and/or dysplasia in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (Cochrane Review)
• eMedicine - Ulcerative Colitis : Article by M Bashar Al-Ataie, MD
• Crohn disease vs ulcerative colitis
• Ulcerative colitis - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
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• Transdermal nicotine for induction of remission in ulcerative colitis (Cochrane Review)
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• Oral 5-aminosalicylic acid for maintenance of remission in ulcerative colitis (Cochrane Review)

Source: Diseases Database

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