celiac disease
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈsiːliæk dɪˈziːz/
- Specialized
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enfermedad celíaca
- When the villi are flattened, lactase is lost, so that patients with active coeliac disease are often lactose intolerant too.
- undiagnosed celiac disease
- latent celiac disease
- celiac disease patients
OK, so she's drinking too much, She's of course allergic to wheat and she has celiac disease.
- OK, so she's drinking too much, She's of course allergic to wheat and she has celiac disease.
- But if you hypothetically do not have that gene, then you do not have celiac disease.
- So they are Constipation, celiac disease and gallbladder dysfunction.
Examples
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If you have celiac disease, it is essential to follow a strict gluten-free diet to avoid symptoms.
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Indeed, a number of these patients turned out to have frank coeliac disease.
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The received wisdom at that time was that coeliac disease, if present, was a condition that presented in early childhood.
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Practice nurses are well placed to detect undiagnosed coeliac disease in the practice population.
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There is some genetic basis to coeliac disease; the concordance in identical twins is about 70%.
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Patients with missed diagnoses of coeliac disease may have other diagnostic labels applied instead, particularly IBS.
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Many people do not realize that they have celiac disease, which can cause serious health problems.
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Doctors often test patients for celiac disease when they report digestive issues related to gluten.
Synonyms
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4.1
A disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues
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4.2
A disease in which the immune system attacks the body's healthy parts
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2.7
A body reaction to gluten that makes you sick, often with belly pain
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3.7
An illness that affects the stomach and intestines, often from bad food or water
How Severe
- Specialized
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3.7
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2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'disease' clearly signals a medical condition, but 'celiac' is a specialized medical adjective whose specific meaning (an immune reaction to gluten causing intestinal damage and malabsorption) is not predictable from everyday vocabulary. A B1 learner who merely knows the surface forms would likely infer it's a kind of disease related to 'celiac' or gluten, but would not be expected to derive the full clinical mechanism or consequences, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Celiac disease comes from an old Greek word meaning 'belly', and the part celiac points to the stomach area. So the name matches a condition that harms the gut when someone with it eats gluten.