mucous colitis
- noun
- /ˈmjuːkəs kəˈlaɪtɪs/
- Archaic
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colitis mucosa
- Symptoms of mucous colitis can worsen during times of stress.
Examples
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Doctors now often refer to mucous colitis as irritable bowel syndrome.
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After years of abdominal pain, Mark was finally diagnosed with mucous colitis.
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She was diagnosed with mucous colitis last year.
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Many people suffer from mucous colitis without knowing it.
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After years of abdominal pain, Mark was finally diagnosed with mucous colitis.
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Doctors now often refer to mucous colitis as irritable bowel syndrome.
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Symptoms of mucous colitis can worsen during times of stress.
Synonyms
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A common condition that causes belly pain and changes in toilet habits, often after stress
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A gut condition that causes belly pain and alternating diarrhea and constipation and is often worse with stress
Surface Forms
Morphology
A learner who knows 'mucous' (relating to mucus) and 'colitis' (inflammation/condition of the colon) can infer that this term refers to a form of colitis involving mucus, so the basic concept is partially derivable from the parts. However, the full clinical connotations (its usual identification with irritable bowel syndrome, recurrent pattern, and links to emotional stress) are specialized and not fully predictable from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Mucous colitis literally names the problem: mucous is the sticky fluid that lines the gut and colitis means the colon is sore or swollen, so the image is a sore large intestine making extra mucus. That's why the name was used for what we now call 'irritable bowel syndrome', with belly pain and times of diarrhea or constipation often linked to stress.