dysentery

English

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Etymology

From Old French dissenterie, from Latin dysenteria, from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία, from δυσ- ‘dys-’ + ἔντερα ‘bowels’.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈdɪsəntɛri/
• IPA: /ˈdɪsɛntəɹi/, /ˈdɪsəntɹi/

Noun

dysentery (countable and uncountable; plural dysenteries)

1. (pathology) 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, low volume of diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.

Derived terms

• dysenteric
• amoebic dysentery

See also

• shigellosis

Translations

disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines

Armenian: դիզենտերիա (hy) (dizenteria) Chinese: Mandarin: 痢疾 (zh) (lìji), 白痢 (zh) (báilì), 赤痢 (zh) (chìlì) (with blood) Czech: úplavice (cs) f. Dutch: dysenterie (nl) f. Finnish: punatauti (fi) French: dysenterie (fr) f. German: Dysenterie (de) f., Ruhr (de) f. (dated) Greek: δυσεντερία (el) (dysentería) f.

Italian: dissenteria (it) f. Japanese: 赤痢 (ja) (せきり, sekiri) Russian: дизентерия (ru) (dizenteríja) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: срдобоља f. Roman: srdobolja f. Slovene: griža (sl) f. Swedish: dysenteri (sv) c.