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Definition of Looseness of the bowels
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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Looseness Of The Bowels
Literary usage of Looseness of the bowels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1899)
"Cusso has a bitter, somewhat astringent taste, and sometimes causes nausea and
vomiting and some looseness of the bowels. In rare cases prostration and ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1834)
"... the slightest, looseness of the bowels occurs —of avoiding with religious
scrupulous, ness any indulgence at table—and, as far as circumstances permit, ..."
3. A Guide to homœopathic practice by Isaac D. Johnson (1885)
"(looseness of the bowels.) Diarrhoea is an affection of the bowels characterized by
... as many diseases commence or terminate with looseness of the bowels. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"They were affected with diarrhœa from one to several days; and some of them, who
had had slight looseness of the bowels for several weeks, ..."
5. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1888)
"There is no initial diarrhoea, or tendency to looseness of the bowels. On the
contrary the bowels are nearly natural in their actions. TYPHOID OR ENTERIC. ..."
6. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1881)
"In the great majority of the cases looseness of the bowels, ... When along with
the looseness of the bowels there was restlessness and want of sleep, ..."
7. A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics by Richard Quain, Frederick Thomas Roberts, John Mitchell Bruce, Samuel Treat Armstrong (1894)
"During this period the child is subject to gastro-intestinal catarrhs, which give
rise to looseness of the bowels. He is often irritable in the day and ..."
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