bacillary dysentery
- noun
- /ˈbæsɪˌlɛri dɪsənˈtɛri/
- Specialized
:
disentería bacilar
- During the outbreak, the hospital admitted several patients diagnosed with bacillary dysentery who experienced severe abdominal pain.
Examples
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Among the agents involved are at least 20 viral, bacterial, and protozoan pathogens that cause diseases such as cholera, bacillary dysentery, and the relatively recently discovered hepatitis E.
Academic text (2015) -
"These are patients in need of immediate care: one hundred and thirty-seven cases of bacillary dysentery or colitis, approximately thirty-three of pneumonia."
Fiction book (1995) -
Diarrhea, including bacillary dysentery, accounted for 32.6% of those treated.
Academic text (1994) -
Another 12.6% of patients were treated for some diarrheal disease, of which about one-fifth were identified as having bacillary dysentery.
Academic text (1994) -
Many people suffer from bacillary dysentery in regions with poor sanitation and contaminated water.
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Preventing bacillary dysentery requires access to clean drinking water and proper hygiene practices.
Synonyms
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A serious disease of the intestines that causes severe diarrhea with blood and mucus
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An illness that happens when bacteria infect the stomach and intestines and cause diarrhea, fever, and belly pain
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning—an intestinal disease caused by bacilli—is directly derivable from 'bacillary' (associated with bacilli) modifying 'dysentery' (a serious intestinal disease). This is a straightforward adjective+noun medical compound with clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the MWE.
Etymology
Bacillary dysentery comes from its parts: bacillary refers to 'rod-shaped bacteria' and dysentery means a bad infection of the 'intestines', so the name points to an intestinal infection caused by bacteria that leads to severe diarrhea.