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How to pronounce dysentery in English?

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Type Words
Type of infectious disease
Has types amoebic dysentery, bacillary dysentery, amebic dysentery, shigellosis

Examples of dysentery

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Incredibly, doctors found that they suffered only dysentery and a few scratches.
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However, due to unsanitary conditions, many of the interned died from dysentery.
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After wandering aimlessly through Aquitaine, Henry the Younger caught dysentery.
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The Black Prince, affected by a dysentery, soon withdrew his support from Pedro.
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Gordon Ramsay is a national institution, just like Bruce Forsyth and dysentery.
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A dysentery epidemic spread through the Allied trenches in both Anzac and Helles.
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The result was an outbreak of fake POW dysentery throughout the officers'compound.
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Suffering severely from dysentery, Washington resigned his commission in December.
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Tropical heat and disease-especially dysentery-decimated their ranks in Burma.
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More examples
  • An infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea
  • Dysentery (formerly known as flux or the bloody flux) is an inflammatory disorder of the intestine, especially of the colon, that results in severe diarrhea containing mucus and/or blood in the feces with fever and abdominal pain. If left untreated, dysentery can be fatal.
  • (dysenteric) Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery
  • Infectious disease of the colon. Symptoms include bloody, mucus-filled diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, and loss of fluids from the body.
  • The discharge of fecal matter by adult bees within the hive. Commonly contributing conditions are nosema disease, excess moisture in the hive, starvation conditions, and low quality food. Tan, brown, or black fecal smears on combs or outside of hive indicate such a problem.
  • An abnormal condition of adult bees characterized by severe diarrhea and usually caused by starvation, low-quality food, moist sur roundings, or nosema infection.
  • A disease characterized by severe diarrhea
  • An illness characterised by frequent, small-volume, severe diarrhoea which shows blood in the faeces along with internal cramping and painful straining to pass stools. Other symptoms include fever and malaise.
  • Frequent watery stools, usually containing blood/mucus; associated with inflammation of the intestine, usually the colon (Entamoeba histolytica, Trichuris trichiura).