Path. [f. Gr. ἔντερον + -ITIS.] Inflammation of the bowels; esp. of the small intestines; usually understood of the acute rather than the chronic form.
1808. Med. Jrnl., XIX. 274. Those patients … were very liable to them [febrile affections] in the form of Enteritis.
1878. Habershon, Dis. Abdomen, 4. Pain … of a very intense form … in enteritis.
