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ulcerative colitis
ulcerative colitis
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This term refers to a specific medical condition and is used almost exclusively in clinical, diagnostic, or patient-care contexts. It carries a heavy, serious connotation as it describes a lifelong chronic illness requiring ongoing medical management.
As a medical diagnosis, the term is treated as an uncountable noun. It does not have a plural form because it refers to a singular disease state rather than a countable object. One does not refer to multiple cases of the disease as "ulcerative colitises."
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