Abdominal pain, which is usually severe, is the most common symptom associated with AIP and often the initial sign of an attack. Abdominal pain is usually severe, steady (unremitting) and widespread (diffuse). Less often, abdominal pain is described as cramping.
Definition of gentile. 1  1 often capitalized : a person of a non-Jewish nation or of non-Jewish faith; especially : a Christian as distinguished from a Jew. 2  2 : heathen, pagan. 3  3 often capitalized : a non-Mormon.
The word ethnic in this context, however, means gentile, coming as it does from the Greek adjective ethnikos, meaning national, foreign, gentile.. The adjective is derived from the noun ethnos, people, nation, foreign people, that in the plural phrase ta ethnÄ meant foreign nations..