Med. [mod.L., f. COL-ON + -ITIS.] Inflammation of the colon.

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1860.  in Mayne, Expos. Lex.

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1866.  A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880). 430. Inflammation of the colon (colitis) and rectum (proctitis) furnishes the anatomical characters of dysentery.

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