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Webster 1913 Edition
Dysentery
Dys′en-ter-y
,Noun.
[L.
dysenteria
, Gr. [GREEK]; δυσ-
ill, bad + [GREEK], pl. [GREEK], intestines, fr. ἐντόσ
within, fr. [GREEK] in, akin to E. in
: cf. F. dysenterie
. See Dys
, and In
.] (Med.)
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.
☞ When acute, dysentery is usually accompanied with high fevers. It occurs epidemically, and is believed to be communicable through the medium of the alvine discharges.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dysentery
DYS'ENTERY
,Noun.
A flux in which the stools consist chiefly of blood and mucus or other morbid matter, accompanied with griping of the bowels, and followed by tenesmus.
Definition 2024
dysentery
dysentery
English
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, high volume of diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
- 1959, Tom Lehrer (music), “In Old Mexico”:
- We ate, we drank, and we were merry / and we got typhoid and dystentery.
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Derived terms
- dysenteric
- amoebic dysentery
See also
Translations
disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines
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