Definition: A classification for diseases which involve chronic inflammation in tissue of the digestive system. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are both inflammatory bowel diseases.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
By Barbara Bradley Bolen, Ph.D., About.com
Updated: January 19, 2008
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