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Diseases » Inflammatory bowel disease » Glossary

Glossary for Inflammatory bowel disease

Abdominal cramps: A condition which is characterized by the sensation of muscle cramps that is located in the abdomen
Abdominal pain: A condition which is characterized by the sensation of pain that is located in the abdomen
Acute Appendicitis: Infection of the appendix
Amebiasis: An intestinal infection caused by a parasitic amebic organism. It is usually associated with poor sanitation.
Amebic dysentery: Ameba-caused bacterial bowel infection and ulceration.
Amyloidosis: A rare group of metabolic disorders where a protein called amyloid accumulates in body organs and tissues where it can cause damage and is potentially fatal. Symptoms depend on the organs involved. There are numerous forms of the condition: primary amyloidosis, secondary amyloidosis, hemodialysis-associated amyloidosis and familial amyloidosis.
Ankylosing Spondylitis: Inflammation of spinal joints similar to rheumatoid arthritis.
Appendicitis/acute appendicitis/chronic appendicitis:
Arthritis: General name for any type of joint inflammation, but often means age-related osteoarthritis.
Behcet's Disease: Recurring inflammation of small blood vessels affecting various areas.
Bowel conditions: Medical conditions that affect the bowels
$CRMO, juvenile$: A rare chronic inflammatory bone disease that occurs in children. The symptoms go into periods of remission only to return. The most common sites for the inflammation are the shinbone, thighbone and collarbone with usually several sites being affected at once.
Canker sores: Ulcers of the mouth or nearby areas
Carcinoid syndrome: Carcinoid heart disease is a rare, metastatic disease that occurs predominantly in the right heart. The tricuspid and pulmonic valves are affected, leading to right heart failure, which results in increased morbidity and mortality.
Celiac Disease: Digestive intolerance to gluten in the diet.
Chagas disease: A parasitic infection caused by the protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by insect bites or blood transfusions. The disease primarily involves the heart and gastrointestinal system.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Severe chronic fatigue disorder often following infection.
Chronic Granulomatous Disease: A very rare inherited blood disorder where certain cells involved with immunity (phagocytes) are unable to destroy bacteria and hence the patient suffers repeated bacterial infections.
Chronic digestive diseases: Any disorder causing ongoing chronic digestive complaints.
Chronic pelvic pain:
Colitis: Inflammation of the colon
Collagenous Colitis: A chronic disorder of the digestive system characterized by inflammation and thickening of the large intestine lining.
Colon conditions: Any condition affecting the colon
Colorectal cancer: Cancer of the colon (bowel) or rectum.
Crohn's disease: Crohn's disease causes inflammation of the digestive system. It is one of a group of diseases called inflammatory bowel disease. The disease can affect any area from the mouth to the anus. It often affects the lower part of the small intestine called the ileum.
Cystic Fibrosis: Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease affecting the exocrine (mucus) glands of the lungs, liver, pancreas, and intestines, causing progressive disability due to multisystem failure.
Cytomegalovirus: A easily transmissible viral infection that is common but generally causes no symptoms except in infants and people with weakened immune systems.
Diabetic Diarrhea: Diarrhea that occurs in diabetics as a result of the damage done by diabetes to the digestive system. Digestive system damage is caused by intestinal neuropathy (damage to intestinal nerves) or bacterial overgrowth or both.
Diarrhea: Loose or watery stool.
Digestive Diseases: Diseases that affect the digestive system
Diverticular disease and diverticulitis:
Endometriosis: Misplaced uterus tissue causing scar tissue.
Fibromyalgia: A difficult to diagnose condition affecting the muscles and/or joints
Gastrointestinal Basidiobolomycosis: Very rare intestinal infection
Glucagonoma: Rare cancer of the glucagon-producing pancreas cells.
Graves Disease: is an autoimmune disease characterized by hyperthyroidism due to circulating autoantibodies. Thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulins (TSIs) bind to and activate thyrotropin receptors, causing the thyroid gland to grow and the thyroid follicles to increase synthesis of thyroid hormone.
Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome: A rare disorder characterized by various degrees of albinism, bleeding due to a platelet defect and accumulation of a waxy substance in cells (lysosomal ceroid storage).
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 2: A rare disorder characterized by various degrees of albinism, bleeding due to a platelet defect, an accumulation of a waxy substance in cells (lysosomal ceroid storage) and immunodeficiency. HPS type 2 differs from type 1 in that it also involves immunodeficiency due to congenital neutropenia.
Inflammatory bowel disease: Any type of digestive condition caused by bowel inflammation.
Interstitial cystitis: A rare condition involving inflammatory disease of the bladder which progresses slowly.
Intestinal Conditions: Conditions that affect the intestines
Irritable bowel syndrome: Spasms in the colon wall
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis: Chronic arthritis affecting children and teens
Kaposi's Sarcoma: Kaposi's sarcoma is a cancerous tumor of the connective tissue, and is often associated with AIDS.
Lactose Intolerance: Lactose intolerance is the inability to metabolize lactose, a sugar found in milk and other dairy products, because the required enzyme lactase is absent in the intestinal system or its availability is lowered.
Lymphocytic colitis: Inflammation of the colon which is only visible through a microscope.
Malabsorption: Failure to digest nutrients properly
Microscopic collagenous colitis: Microscopic collagenous colitis refers to inflammation of the colon that is only visible when the colon's lining is examined under a microscope. The appearance of the inner colon lining in microscopic colitis is normal by visual inspection during colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy.
Microscopic lymphocytic colitis: Microscopic lymphocytic colitis refers to inflammation of the colon that is only visible when the colon's lining is examined under a microscope. The appearance of the inner colon lining in microscopic colitis is normal by visual inspection during colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy.
Microscopic ulcerative colitis: Microscopic ulcerative colitis refers to inflammation of the colon that is only visible when the colon's lining is examined under a microscope. The appearance of the inner colon lining in microscopic colitis is normal by visual inspection during colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy.
Nausea: The queasy feeling of nausea and often also vomiting.
Oral Ulcer: An open sore inside the mouth.
Pancolitis: Pancolitis is also known as ulcerative colitis which is an idiopathic chronicinflammatory disorder of the colon and rectum and involves the entire thickness of the colon.
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Infection of the womb and fallopian tubes.
Peptic Ulcer: Ulcer on the lining of the stomach or duodenum
Primary biliary cirrhosis: Primary biliary cirrhosis is a chronic and progressive cholestatic disease of the liver.
Primary sclerosing cholangitis: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease of unknown etiology that is recognized increasingly in children.
Proctitis: A chronic inflammatory disease of the rectum which causes bloody diarrhea.
Pseudomembranous Colitis: Diarrhoeal illness caused by the bacteria Clostridium difficile, usually following a recent course of antibiotics and disruption of normal bowel bacteria
Rheumatoid arthritis: Autoimmune form of arthritis usually in teens or young adults.
Rotavirus: Diarrhea-causing virus in infants.
Schistosomiasis: Parasitic fluke infection in developing countries
Sclerosing Cholangitis: Chronic hereditary disease causing inflammation and destruction of the bile ducts in and around the liver with subsequent blockage to bile flow
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Various diseases spread by sexual contact.
Shigellosis: An infectious disease which affects the intestinal tract and is caused by the Shigella bacteria. The condition may be severe, especially in children, but may be asymptomatic in some cases. The disease can be transmitted through fecal-oral contact.
Somatostatinoma: A very rare disorder where tumors in glands that produce somatostatin affect the secretion of the hormone. The tumor mainly occurs in the pancreas but can also occur in the intestinal tract.
Sutton disease 2: A rare condition characterized by recurring periods of painful inflamed mouth ulcers.
Traveler's diarrhea: Various diarrheal conditions often caught on international travel.
Turner Syndrome: Rare chromosome syndrome with one X but no second X or Y chromosome.
Ulcerative colitis: Ulcerative colitis (Colitis ulcerosa, UC) is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Ulcerative colitis is a form of colitis, a disease of the intestine, specifically the large intestine or colon, that includes characteristic ulcers, or open sores, in the colon.
Ulcerative proctosigmoiditis: Ulcerative proctosigmoiditisis an idiopathic chronicinflammatory disorder limited to the sigmoid colon and the rectum.
Vipoma: A rare disorder caused by an increase in secretion of vasoactive intestinal peptide by the pancreas. The syndrome is often caused by an islet-cell tumor (except for beta cells) in the pancreas.
Vomiting: Vomiting or retching symptoms.
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome: A rare disorder where excessive levels of the hormone gastrin are released into the stomach which increases stomach acidity which results in peptic ulcer development. A hormone secreting pancreatic or duodenal tumor is usually the cause.