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Colitis - Wikipedia

Colitis is an inflammation of the colon.Colitis may be acute and self-limited or long-term.It broadly fits into the category of digestive diseases.. In a medical context, the label colitis (without qualification) is used if: . The cause of the inflammation in the colon is undetermined; for example, colitis may be applied to Crohn's disease at a time when the diagnosis is unknown, or