Dysentery
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Noun
Dysentery (countable and uncountable; plural dysenteries)- (pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, low volume of diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
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African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, BM, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, abscess, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, anthrax, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, bacillary dysentery, backache, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, bleeding, blennorhea, bloody flux, bowel movement, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cachexia, cachexy, cardialgia, catharsis, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, chill, chills, cholera, cholera morbus, colic, constipation, convulsion, costiveness, coughing, cowpox, crap, cyanosis, dandy fever, deer fly fever, defecation, dejection, dengue, dengue fever, diarrhea, diphtheria, dizziness, dropsy, dumdum fever, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, elephantiasis, emaciation, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, evacuation, fainting, famine fever, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, five-day fever, flu, flux, frambesia, glandular fever, gripe, gripes, grippe, growth, hansenosis, heartburn, hemorrhage, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, high blood pressure, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammation, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, insomnia, irregularity, itching, jail fever, jaundice, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, labored breathing, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, lientery, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, loose bowels, low blood pressure, lumbago, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marasmus, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, movement, mumps, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, obstipation, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, pain, paralysis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, pruritus, psittacosis, purgation, purge, pyrosis, rabbit fever, rabies, rash, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheum, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, runs, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, sclerosis, seizure, septic sore throat, shingles, shit, shits, shock, skin eruption, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, sneezing, sore, spasm, splenic fever, spotted fever, stool, strep throat, swamp fever, tabes, tachycardia, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, trots, tuberculosis, tularemia, tumor, turistas, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, upset stomach, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, vertigo, viral dysentery, voidance, vomiting, wasting, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster
Etymology
From Old French dissenterie, from Latin dysenteria, from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία, from δυσ- ‘dys-’ + ἔντερα ‘bowels’.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdɪsɛntəɹi/, /ˈdɪsəntɹi/
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