Med. [Unetymologically f. COLON1 + -ITIS; the proper etymological form is COLITIS.] Inflammation of the colon.
1834. Good, Study Med. (ed. 4), II. 240. Dr. Ballinghall has distinguished it by the name of Colonitis.
1846. G. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., II. 391. In gastritis, colonitis.
