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Crohn's disease Chronic inflammatory disease of the bowel, of unknown origin, treated with antibiotics to prevent infection and with anti‐inflammatory agents. Sufferers may be malnourished as a result of both loss of appetite due to illness and also malabsorption. Also known as regional enteritis, since only some regions of the gut are affected. See also gastro‐intestinal tract.

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