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Definition of Dysentery

1. Noun. An infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea.

Definition of Dysentery

1. 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.

Definition of Dysentery

1. Noun. (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. ¹

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Definition of Dysentery

1. [n -RIES]

Medical Definition of Dysentery

1. Any of various disorders marked by inflammation of the intestines, especially of the colon and attended by pain in the abdomen, tenesmus and frequent stools containing blood and mucus. Causes include chemical irritants, bacteria, protozoa or parasitic worms. Origin: L. Dysenteria, from Gr. Enteron = intestine This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Dysentery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"Owing to improved sanitation, dysentery has become IOPS frequent. ... In institutions, particularly in overcrowded asylums, dysentery is very common, ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"BACTERIAL DISEASES 193 less resistance to bacillary dysentery than do the active ... Bacillary dysentery is less likely to produce the numerous irregularly ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1842)
"THE dysentery has prevailed as an epidemic in this region of country at several ... The dysentery prevailed in Deerfield as an epidemic, in the year 1751. ..."

4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"These mannitol-fermenting dysentery bacilli have been subdivided in two ways ... 1 For the technique employed and a description of the cases of dysentery in ..."

5. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"dysentery (Flux) dysentery is a form of intestinal flux, characterized by frequent passages of blood and mucus, and straining at stool. ..."

6. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"dysentery GROUP. dysentery may be divided into acute and chronic. Amebae appear to be the chief exciting factor in most cases of chronic dysentery, ..."

7. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"dysentery and Relapsing Fever, 1826-27. Fever and dysentery decreased to an ... But it was in the hot and dry summers of 1825 and 1826 that dysentery became ..."

8. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"THE TREATMENT OF TROPICAL dysentery. Now that the United States has control ... dysentery is one of the most prevalent maladies of the torrid zone, and is, ..."

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