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till(4) (iou) and distal ileitis (medicine)


till(4) (iou)



till preposition & conjunction.
[Old English (Northumbrian) til preposition with dat. = Old Frisian til (with dat.), Old Norse til (with genit.); prob. from adverbial use of Germanic noun meaning 'aim, goal' (cf. TILL verb1) repr. by Old English till fixed point. Cf. UNTIL, UNTO.]
A. preposition.
To (expressing position, direction, relationship, etc.); as far as. Now only Scot. & north. OE.
T. Fuller He was..restored till his liberty and arch-bishoprick.
a. Onward to (a specified time); up to the time of (an event); during the time before. Freq. with adverb or adverbial phr. of time. ME.
C. Kingsley A plant till then unknown to me. J. Buchan I had not..heard his name till that afternoon.
b. Used in stating the time of day: to. US. M20.
H. Kurath In..the Midland..quarter till eleven is current.
Introducing an inf.: to. Now only Scot. ME.
Sir W. Scott An ye had wussed till hae been present.
After a neg.: before (a specified time). Cf. UNTIL preposition 5. L16.
Defoe [He] begged of me not to go on shore till day.
b. conjunction.
To the time that; up to the point when. Formerly also foll. by that. ME.
Spenser They traveiled..Till that at last they to a Castle came. V. Woolf We talked till I left at 8.
= UNTIL conjunction 2. ME.
Mrs H. Ward Bessie ran till she was out of breath.
During the time that; so long as; while. ME-E17.
After a neg.: before the time that; before; when. Cf. UNTIL conjunction 3. Now dial. & US. LME.
W. Lithgow Scarcely were wee well advanced in our way, till wee were beset with..three hundred Arabs.
In order that (one) may, so that. Scot. & Anglo-Irish. L19.
A. J. Cronin Come till I give ye a grand, big hug.
Phrases: till and frae (long obsolete exc. Scot.) to and fro. up till: see UP adverb1.

distal ileitis (medicine)


distal ileitis -->
Regional enteritis


A subacute chronic enteritis, of unknown cause, involving the terminal ileum and less frequently Other parts of the gastrointestinal tract; characterised by patchy deep ulcers that may cause fistulas, and narrowing and thickening of the bowel by fibrosis and lymphocytic infiltration, with noncaseating tuberculoid granulomas that also may be found in Regional lymph nodes; symptoms include fever, diarrhoea, cramping abdominal pain, and Weight Loss.

Synonym: chronic cicatrizing enteritis, Crohn's disease, distal ileitis, Regional ileitis, terminal ileitis, granulomatous enteritis.