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Definition: Dysentery |
DysenteryNoun1. An infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dysentery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Dysentery \Dys"en*ter*y\, noun. [Latin expression dysenteria, Greek; ill, bad +, plural, intestines, from 'ento`s within, from in, akin to English in: compare to the French expression dysenterie. See Dys, and In.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Botanical | Diarrhea produced by irritation of the bowels. Treated with Acacia, Adenanthera, Anacardium, Annona, Aristolochia, Bidens, Bixa, Brownea, Bursera, Cajanus, Casuarina, Cecropia, Celosia, Chrysobalanus, Chrysophyllum, Clitoria, Coccoloba, Cocos, Crateva, Crescentia, Cupania, Desmodium, Elephantopus, Elytraria, Equisetum, Erechtites, Euphorbia, Haematoxylum, Genipa, Guazuma, Jatropha, Jussiaea, Mangifera, Mimosa, Morinda, Musa, Pachyrhizus, Phaseolus, Piper, Pistia, Pithecellobium, Portulaca, Pseudelephantopus, Psidium, Punica, Randia, Sesbania, Simarouba, Spathodea, Spondias, Swietenia, Tamarindus, Zornia. (references) |
Health | 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. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dysentery is a severe diarrheal illness often associated with blood in the feces.
There are two major types: shigellosis, which is caused by one of several types of Shigella bacteria; and amoebic dysentery, which is caused by the amoeba Entameba histolytica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dysentery."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excretion | Noun: excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, stools, crap; bloody flux; cacation; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation, exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dysentery |
| English words defined with "dysentery": Antidysenteric ♦ Bloody flux ♦ chloroquine, conessi ♦ Dysenterical ♦ Endamoeba histolytica ♦ Flix, Flix weed ♦ Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens ♦ ivory tree ♦ kurchee, kurchi ♦ shiga bacillus, Shigella dysentariae ♦ White flux. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dysentery": Balantidiasis ♦ CASSIA TOMENTOSA, Clostridium perfringens type B infection ♦ Dysentery, Amebic ♦ ELYTRARIA TRIDENTATA, Entamoeba histolytica, Entamoebiasis, EQUISETUM BOGOTENSE ♦ lamb dysentery ♦ nosema disease of bees, nosematosis of bees ♦ Serpulina hyodysenteriae, Shigella boydii, Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri, Shigella sonnei, Shigella Vaccines, Sonne dysentery, Sonne-Kruse dysentery, SPATHODEA CAMPANULATA ♦ winter dysentery, winter scours. (references) |
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Lyrics | And we got typhoid and dysentery. (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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 | Flies can transmit food-borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, salmonellosis and dysentery, as well as myiasis, trachoma, and yaws. They breed in organic wastes, refuse and animal excrement. Credit: CDC. |  | Preparation of compilation in amebic dysentery study at the National Institute of Health. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | This 23-year-old Czech victim of dysentery in Nazi camp at Flossenburg, Germany, was found by 97th Division of U.S. Army / Signal Corps U.S. Army. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Southern remedies. HAH & Co. [device]. The Hindoo remedy for asiatic cholera, cholera morbus, dysentery, diarrhea, cramp colic, & c. Prepared by H.A. Hughes & Co., druggists, Louisville, Ky. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | How can you have the gall to stand there with two arms, two legs and a head as if you’re a human being? This is behaviour that a bout of amoebic dysentery would be ashamed of. I bet that even the very lowest form of dysentery amoeba shows up to take its girlfriend out for a quick trot around the stomach lining once in a while |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Shigellae are well known as the cause of bacillary dysentery. (references) | |
Few of the infected travelers had dysentery, but most had watery diarrhea. (references) | ||
Amebic dysentery is a severe form of amebiasis associated with stomach pain, bloody stools, and fever. (references) | ||
Children | Bulgaria | Access to medical care and proper hygiene is poor; in August 2000, three children died of dysentery in the home for handicapped children in Medven. (references) |
Human Rights | Burundi | According to government officials, prisoners suffered from digestive illnesses, dysentery, and malaria. (references) |
Ukraine | Poor sanitary conditions resulted in 300 deaths from diseases such as tuberculosis and 13 from dysentery during the first half of the year. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | The main health hazards include AIDS, malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, parasites, hepatitis A and B, typhoid, and rabies. (references) |
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| "Dysentery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.92% of the time. "Dysentery" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.92% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 23.08% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
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Expressions using "dysentery": amebic dysentery ♦ amoebic dysentery ♦ bacillary dysentery ♦ lamb dysentery ♦ Sonne dysentery ♦ swine dysentery ♦ winter dysentery. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dysentery": dysentery-type. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dysentery | 105 |
amebic dysentery | 19 |
amoebic dysentery | 8 |
dysentery symptom | 3 |
dysentery gary | 2 |
bacillary dysentery | 2 |
dysentery picture | 2 |
dysentery treatment | 2 |
amoebic dysentery jungle ulcer | 2 |
dysentery gary lyrics | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "dysentery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dizenteri. (various references) | |
Arabic | زحار, إسهال (purge), ديزنطاريا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дизентерия. (various references) | |
Chinese | 疶 , 痢疾, 痢 . (various references) | |
Czech | úplavice (red pestilence). (various references) | |
Danish | dysenteri. (various references) | |
Dutch | dysenterie. (various references) | |
Farsi | ذوسنطاریا, دیسانتری . (various references) | |
Finnish | punatauti. (various references) | |
French | dysenterie. (various references) | |
German | Ruhr (Ruhr), Dysenterie (bacillary dysentery). (various references) | |
Greek | δυσεντερία (dysentry). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בור"ם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vérhas. (various references) | |
Indonesian | disentri. (various references) | |
Italian | dissenteria. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 赤痢. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せきり, あかはら (Japanese brown thrush, newt). (various references) | |
Korean | 이질 (heterogeneous). (various references) | |
Manx | yn keckey shooyl, yn gorley gastey, giarrey folley (bloody flux), chingys mooar y yiarrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ysenteryday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | disenteria (bee dysentery). (various references) | |
Romanian | dizenterie. (various references) | |
Russian | дизентерия (bloody flux). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dizenterija. (various references) | |
Spanish | disentería. (various references) | |
Swedish | dysenteri, rödsot. (various references) | |
Thai | โรคบิ". (various references) | |
Turkish | dizanteri, kanlı basur. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дизентерія (bloody flux, flux). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwaedlif (hemorrhage). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dysenteria. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Dysentery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desenter, disentery, dysentary, dysentey, dysentry, Dysinger. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dysentery" (pronounced di"sunte'rē) |
| 6 | -u n t e' r ē | commentary, fragmentary, involuntary, momentary, sedentary. |
| 4 | -t e' r ē | budgetary, cemetery, cometary, depositary, dietary, dignitary, hereditary, interplanetary, military, monastery, monetary, nonmilitary, paramilitary, pituitary, planetary, proprietary, salutary, sanitary, secretary, solitary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unsanitary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, centenary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, Dewberry, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, obituary, ordinary, pecuniary, preliminary, primary, probationary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, sanctuary, savagery, secondary, semilegendary, seminary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, unnecessary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-r-s-t-y-y" | |
-2 letters: styrene, tenders, yestern. | |
-3 letters: denser, desert, deters, dryest, enders, enters, nested, nester, redeny, redyes, renest, rented, rentes, resend, resent, rested, sender, sentry, syndet, teensy, tender, tensed, tenser, ternes, treens, trends, trendy, yentes, yester. | |
-4 letters: deers, deets, denes, dense, dents, deter, drees, drest, dyers, dynes, ender, enter, entry, ernes, ester, eyers, eyres, needs, needy. | |
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