Enteritis

(en-ter-i' -tis). Inflammation of the small intestine. E., Chronic Exudative. Synonym of E., Pseudo-membranous. E.,Membranous. Synonym of E., Pseudo membranous. E.,Pellicular. Synonym of E., Pseudo membranous. E., Pseudo-membranous, a non febrile affection of the bowel, consisting in a peculiar, and usually persistent, morbid condition of the intestinal mucous membrane, marked by the periodic formation of viscous, shreddy, or tubular exudates composed chiefly of mucin, on the discharge of which temporary amelioration of the accompanying acute digestive and nervous symptoms occurs. The disease appears mainly in middle life and usually in females.