Word Finder - dysentery

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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 of diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.

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Diarrhea

Fever, dysentery and ophthalmia, chiefly due to exposure to heavy dews and cold nights, are prevalent.

He died five days afterwards, either of dysentery or by violence.

His old enemy dysentery soon found him out.

Milder cases of malarial fever are apt to become dangerous from the complications of dysentery, bronchitis or pneumonia.

The dysentery poison appears to exert its effects upon the glandular structures of the large intestine, particularly in its lower part.

The only other disease to which reference need be made here is dysentery, which sometimes breaks out after the long confinement bees are compelled to undergo during severe winters.

Although at one time a common disease in Great Britain, dysentery is now very rarely met with there, and is for the most part confined to warm countries, where it is the cause of a large amount of mortality.

Dysentery, which is common, and the most serious disease e in the islands, is said to have been unknown before the advent of Europeans.

The Chinese immigrants suffer chiefly from fever of a malarial type, from beri-beri, a species of tropical dropsy, and from dysentery.

In the 6th century Alexander of Tralles used colchicum for gout, iron for anaemia, and rhubarb in liver weakness and dysentery.

During the trying winter of 1854-55, the suffering he was compelled to witness, the censures, in great part unjust, which he had to endure and all the manifold anxieties of the siege seriously undermined his health, and although he found a friend and ardent supporter in his new French colleague, General Pelissier (q.v.), disappointment at the failure of the assault of the 18th of June 1855 finally broke his spirit, and very shortly afterwards, on the 28th of June 1855, he died of dysentery.

These lowland districts are densely forested in the south, except Yucatan, and large areas are covered with streams, swamps and lagoons, the abode of noxious insects, pestilential fevers and dysentery.

Hepatic Abscess is especially common in persons from the East who have recently undergone an attack of dysentery.

Indians taken down from the sierra get ague and dysentery.

Internally the nitrate has been used in the treatment of gastric ulcer, in ulcerative conditions of the intestine and in chronic dysentery.

On the 4th of April the Kwango was crossed, and on the 31st of May the town of Loanda was entered, Livingstone, however, being all but dead from fever, semi-starvation and dysentery.

The astringent salts are therefore useful occasionally to check diarrhoea and dysentery.

Should the disease be arrested these ulcers may heal entirely, but occasionally they remain, causing more or less disorganization of the coats of the intestines, as is often found in chronic dysentery.

We were faced with a choice of drinking the water and getting amoebic dysentery or spending a rough night suffering from thirst.

Many fell ill on the march, including Venables himself who contracted dysentery.

The pathogens include bacteria which cause dysentery, viruses responsible for polio and hepatitis, and many others.

I has been traveling in the Middle East and India in the spring of 1965 and got dysentery.

Men relieved themselves where they were, many had dysentery.

Diseases related to poor sanitation include dysentery, hepatitis, bilharzia, guinea worm, hook worm and tape worm.

With the difficulty of keeping clean, it was inevitable that so many would catch dysentery.

John Roger Stuart Moss died of amoebic dysentery on 20th June 1943.

The complete absence of latrines was responsible for the ground being fouled and for the outbreak of bacillary dysentery.

In one study, andrographis was given to 1,611 people with bacterial dysentery and 955 people with diarrhea.

Amebic dysentery is caused by the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.

The inoculation was probably for braxy, louping-ill or lamb dysentery.

Weakened by dysentery, Ransome returned to Britain in October, and as a result missed the Bolshevik insurrection four weeks later.

Malaria, dysentery and the vitamin deficiency disease pellagra attacked the prisoners.

We ate, we drank, and we were merry, And we got typhoid and dysentery.

In the pamphlets written concerning the sale by Dr William Cockburn (1669-1739) of his secret remedy for dysentery and other fluxes, it was stated for the defence that Sloane himself did not disdain the same kind of professional conduct; and some colour is given to that charge by the fact that his only medical publication, an Account of a Medicine for Soreness, Weakness and other Distempers of the Eyes (London, 1745) was not given to the world until its author was in his eighty-fifth year and had retired from practice.

Bad generalship, which is sufficiently obvious, unwholesome food - it was Lent, and they ate the Nile fish which had been feasting on the carcases of the slain - and Greek fire did the rest, and personal valour was of little avail,not merely against superior numbers and better generals,but against dysentery and a certain "mal de l'ost" which attacked the mouth and the legs, a curious human version of a well-known bestial malady.

The new millenium has shown a particularly marked increase in the number of cases of lamb dysentery, pulpy kidney and black disease.

Kudzu, the root of the herb is used to treat intestinal obstruction, dysentery, headaches, stomach ailments, diarrhea, tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and vertigo.

Traditional Chinese medicine recommended the opium poppy, known to Chinese physicians as ying su ke, for the treatment of asthma, severe diarrhea, and dysentery as well as chronic pain and insomnia.

Bloody diarrhea, sometimes called dysentery, is produced by EHEC, EIEC, some types of Salmonella, some types of Shigella, and Yersinia.

In dysentery, the infection is located in the colon, cells and tissues are destroyed, inflammation is present, and antibiotic therapy is usually required.

If the patient is running a fever, a diagnosis of dysentery is more likely.

If the patient's abdomen hurts when the doctor examines it, a diagnosis of dysentery is more likely.

Shigella are extremely infectious bacteria, and ingestion of just 10 organisms is enough to cause dysentery.

The most serious form of the disease is called dysentery, which is characterized by severe watery (and often blood- and mucus-streaked) diarrhea, abdominal cramping, rectal pain, and fever.

Shigella is only one of several organisms that can cause dysentery, but the term bacillary dysentery is usually another name for shigellosis.

Symptoms can be limited to mild diarrhea or develop into dysentery.

The diarrhea may be quite severe with cramping and progresses to classic dysentery.

The conditions were horrendous, and dysentery killed many soldiers.

The climate is unhealthy - fever, smallpox, dysentery and rheumatism being the prevailing diseases.

In 1816 he left Guiana and took refuge in Port-au-Prince (Haiti), where he died of dysentery.