dysentery
15
7.9
- noun
- /ˈdɪsənˌtɛri/
:
disentería
- Intestinal obstruction, anaemia, malnutrition, dysentery syndrome, fever, dehydration, vomiting, and colitis are the major complications associated with STH infections.
- bacillary dysentery
- amoebic dysentery
- diarrhea and dysentery
He gets sick, he gets dysentery and diphtheria.
- He gets sick, he gets dysentery and diphtheria.
- I'll carry all this, this, this stuff around on my back and sweat and eat terrible food and probably get, you know, some dysentery along the way.
- But Josh refused to get dysentery.
Examples
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In addition, hunger, malaria, cholera, dysentery, and infectious diseases are a constant battle.
Academic text (2009) -
The doctor explained that my dysentery was caused by contaminated water.
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All these men have dysentery.
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If millions of U.S. students had dysentery, the CDC would be on that in a minute.
Academic text (2016) -
On the ship, on the way to Surinam, he had fallen ill with dysentery.
Fiction book (1994) -
"Then the rest of them died of dehydration and dysentery because they were eating half-rotten food."
Fiction book (1992) -
Thanks in part to water pollution, viral hepatitis and dysentery top the list of infectious diseases in China.
Academic text (1997) -
The passing of bloody stools was further defined as dysentery, an acute form of diarrhea.
Academic text (2005) -
Diarrhea, including bacillary dysentery, accounted for 32.6% of those treated.
Academic text (1994) -
Dysentery, measles, pneumonia, no vaccines, of course, so death rates run 15 to 20 people a day in every village, and there's land mines, lots of them.
Synonyms
1
7.7
A serious infection in the intestines caused by a parasite, causing severe diarrhea and often blood in the stool
1
9.9
An illness that happens when bacteria infect the stomach and intestines and cause diarrhea, fever, and belly pain
An infection of the intestines caused by bacteria that causes severe diarrhea, fever, and stomach pain
Antonyms
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1.0
The condition of a person's body and mind, especially being free from illness or injury
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.7
A serious infection in the intestines caused by a parasite, causing severe diarrhea and often blood in the stool
- Specialized
An infection of the intestines caused by bacteria that causes severe diarrhea, fever, and stomach pain
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
dysentery = dys + enter + y
Although formed from the medical combining elements dys- (bad/difficult) + enter- (intestine) plus -y, these are specialized Greek-based elements not productive or familiar to an average B1 learner, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from the parts.
Etymology
Dysentery comes from Greek parts dys- meaning 'bad' or 'difficult' and enteron meaning 'intestine', the same root you see in intestinal. So dysentery literally names a 'bad intestine' problem, which is why it means a serious intestinal illness with severe bloody diarrhea.