Dysentery

['dɪs(ə)nt(ə)rɪ] or ['dɪsəntɛri]

Definition

(noun.) an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea.

Checker: Uriah--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

Editor: Thea

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Bloody-flux.

Typist: Ludwig

Definition

n. a form of disease accompanied by discharges from the bowels and differing from diarrhœa chiefly in being attended by marked fever and pain as also by the presence of blood and inflammatory products in the discharges. It is a disease of the mucous membrane of the colon or great intestine.—adj. Dysenter′ic.

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