enterocolitis
noun
enterocolitis is a noun meaning “Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the small intestine and of the colon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-T-E-R-O-C-O-L-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of enterocolitis is enterocolitides.
What does enterocolitis mean?
noun
- 1
Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the small intestine and of the colon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of enterocolitis
- enterocolitides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is enterocolitis?
Enterocolitis appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Enterocolitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | entérocolite |
| Portuguese | enterocolite |
| Spanish | enterocolitis |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does enterocolitis come from?
From entero- + colitis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).