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• The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.From the entry smallpox
• Patients with dysentery have mucosanguineous evacuations, with moderate colic pain preceding discharge, and rectal tenesmus.2009, Jean-Claude Givel, Neil James Mortensen, Bruno Roche, eds., Anorectal and Colonic Diseases: A Practical Guide to Their Management…. From the entry mucosanguineous
• A variety of respiratory illnesses, yellow fever, dysentery, and above all, malaria still killed regularly.2008, Barnett Singer, John Langdon, Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire, →ISBN. From the entry imperial disease
• They also found that the gum possessed some property that will cure dysentery and other internal complaints.1946, Walkabout, volume 13, page 49. From the entry blackboy
• War would be a picnic if it wasn't for lice and dysentery.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry where'm
• Their work directly exposed them to enteritis and dysentery—so much so that they were sometimes literally wading in blood and feces.1989, John Higginson, “Copper, Community, and Death”, in A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise…. From the entry nightsoiler
• In cases of continuous intoxication it results in dysentery, fevers, insanity, and drinking beno is the cause of many deaths.1900, Harper’s History of the War in the Philippines, page 315. From the entry beno
• The stem is used for bilious conditions; ash for discharges and wounds, sapraemia in Malaya; infusion of straw for dysentery, gout, and rheumatism.1993, James A. Duke, CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops, →ISBN, page 342. From the entry sapraemia
• But this is by no means the case; quinin, which is not a specific for dysentery, exercises a more powerful amœbicidal effect than does emetin.1918, Sanford B. Hooker, The New England Medical Gazette, Volume LIII, №. 4, pages 215-216. From the entry amœbicidal
• Important infectious diseases in man and animals are caused by protozoa; e.g., malaria, amœbic dysentery, trypanosomiasis, piroplasmosis, and possibly yellow and scarlet fever.1907, Ludvig Hektoen, chapter I, in Modern Medicine, volume II, Lea Brothers & Co., page 19. From the entry amœbic

Meaning of dysentery

1. noun 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, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
2. noun Diarrhea.

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How do you use dysentery in a sentence?

Dysentery is used as a noun. For example: “The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.”

What is a short sentence with dysentery?

“War would be a picnic if it wasn't for lice and dysentery.”

What does dysentery mean?

Dysentery means 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, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.