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.
Dysentery is a generic term meaning "large volume diarrhea, often with blood and/or mucus in the feces". Dysentery can be caused by amoebas, bacteria, viruses or parasites, and the vector changes depending upon the pathogen causing the illness.
Dysentery: Inflammation of the intestine, often with pain, diarrhea, bloody stools, etc. It is usually caused by infestation of the bowel by an ameba. Dysentery can be fatal, usually due to severe dehydration. Treatment includes rapid rehydration, sometimes via IV, and medication. From the Greek "dys-" meaning "abnormal or painful" + "enteron" meaning "intestine" = abnormal or painful intestine.
The prefix of dysentery is dy. The suffix of dysentery is sentery. Dysentery is an inflammation of the colon or intestines.
explosive diarrhea
Dysentery exists in the small intestine
They all suffered from dysentery after drinking the dirty water.
Dysentery killed many people on the trail to Oregon.
etiologic agent
Sorry, I was suffering from a mild case of dysentery.
While serving his sentence in prison, he suffered from dysentery.
The gut. The main symptom of dysentery is diarrhea.
Amoebic dysentery caused by amoeba and bacillary disentery caused by Bacteria `shigella'