Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ulcerative_colitis

1 sense of ulcerative colitis

Sense 1
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)
       => colitis, inflammatory bowel disease -- (inflammation of the colon)