Definition of Crohn

1. Noun. United States physician who specialized in diseases of the intestines; he was the first to describe regional ileitis which is now known as Crohn's disease (1884-1983).

Exact synonyms: Burrill Bernard Crohn
Generic synonyms: Doc, Doctor, Dr., Md, Medico, Physician

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crohn

Crockett
Crocodile River
Crocodilia
Crocodilus
Crocodylia
Crocodylidae
Crocodylus
Crocodylus niloticus
Crocodylus porosus
Crocq's disease
Crocus sativus
Crocuta
Crocuta crocuta
Croesus
Croft
Crohn (current term)
Crohn's disease
Croix de Guerre
Croker
Cromwell
Cromwellian
Cromwellians
Cronartium
Cronartium ribicola
Crone
Cronenbergian
Crones
Cronos
Cronus
Crooke's granules

Literary usage of Crohn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"I shall also refer here to a paper by Dr. Crohn,2 of Halberstadt, because he states that he wrote it on seeing the notice in the Berlin papers of the death ..."

2. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1922)
"They reply to the paper of Crohn regarding, first, the demonstration of a ... The author criticizes the method which Crohn uses in the carrying out of his ..."

3. Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine (1853)
"H. Crohn, GS for German Correspondence ; PL Evans, ... Crohn briefly returned thanks, stating what pleasure the G. 0. ' always had in attending such ..."

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