Why Is It Called Celiac?
Why Is It Called Celiac? 8,000 years after its inception, celiac disease was identified by Aretaeus of Cappadocia, a Greek physician living in the first century AD. He originally named the disease as ‘koiliakos‘ after the word ‘koelia’, meaning abdomen. What does word celiac mean? 1 : of or relating to the abdominal cavity. 2