Colitis

Colitis (including ulcerative ) is in medicine a generic term for various acute or chronic inflammation of the colon or intestine Grimm (colon ), usually associated with diarrhea.

These include:

• Chronic inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis
• Crohn's disease

• Bacterial pseudomembranous colitis
• Enterohemorrhagic colitis

In the novel " The Story of San Michele " reported the Swedish doctor Axel Munthe, as he was at the time assailed as a fashion doctor downright patients who wanted to have diagnosed under the vague term " colitis " a fashion disease.

• Disease in gastroenterology
• Colon