Definition of "ileitis" []

• Inflammation of the ileum. (noun)

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• "The doctors chose to conceal, not only from the public but from Eisenhower, what Snyder later characterized as “a burned-out terminal ileitis.”"
• "Several hours before she was to arrive, barium tests revealed that he might be suffering an acute recurrence of the ileitis condition he had had as president."
• "In 1955 he had suffered a major heart attack, in early 1956 he had undergone an operation for ileitis, and in late 1957 he had had a minor stroke."