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Definition of Diarrhoea
1. Noun. Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor.
Group relationships: Dysentery
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Specialized synonyms: The Shits, The Trots, Montezuma's Revenge
Derivative terms: Diarrheal, Diarrhetic, Diarrhoeal, Diarrhoetic, Loose
Definition of Diarrhoea
1. Noun. (chiefly British spelling) (alternative spelling of diarrhea) ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly British spelling) (alternative spelling of diarrhea) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diarrhoea
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Medical Definition of Diarrhoea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diarrhoea
Literary usage of Diarrhoea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1883)
"Percussion of the Colon in diarrhoea.—diarrhoea depending upon faecal ...
The diagnosis, however, between this form of diarrhoea and that other whose ..."
2. Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine : a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1900)
"diarrhoea.—Like constipation, diarrhoea will be merely treated of as we meet ...
There are several varieties of diarrhoea. Difference in time gives rise to ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Two of the above-mentioned hemorrhage eases had severe and persistent diarrhoea
preceding the hemorrhage. Five other cases were admitted, in the course of ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: designed for the use of by William Osler (1892)
"In some individuals special articles of diet will always produce a slight diarrhoea,
which may not be due to a catarrh of the mucosa, but to increased ..."
5. A Handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1882)
"In chronic diarrhoea of children with pale stinking motions, ... As chalk mixture
in diarrhoea from more serious causes as typhoid or phthisis. ..."
6. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1906)
"THE RELATION OF TYPES OF diarrhoea IN CHILDREN TO STRAINS OF BACILLUS ... of the
dysentery bacillus with diarrhoea in infants is now established. ..."
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