coeliac

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.

   • Next remove the middle portion of the lesser omentum, and feel for the coeliac axis.
   • The coeliac plexus is formed by the two interconnecting coeliac ganglia which lie either side of the coeliac artery.
   • The coeliac ganglia lie on each side of the coeliac trunk.
2. 2

   Abbreviation of coeliac disease

   Abbreviation of coeliac disease; used attributively.

   • The results of skin testing and RAST indicate that most coeliac patients do not have circulating IgE specific for wheat proteins [25, 34, 108].
   • Most coeliac patients are childen, the symptoms showing when cereals are first introduced in their diet.
   • Thus more fortunately for most coeliac patients a reliable diagnosis could now be made on the basis of one set of small bowel biopsies as opposed to three.
3. 3

   Someone who has coeliac disease.

   • In all 5 untreated coeliacs as well as the 3 partially treated coeliacs who were in relapse at the time of biopsy, villi were entirely absent.
   • Hyposplenism in coeliacs does not appear to lead to these diseases.
   • Instead, anecdotal observations came to dominate the literature, describing adult coeliacs as mentally peculiar, excessively nervous and unstable, depressive, or even schizophrenic (Paulley, 1959; Dohan, 1966).

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