amoebic dysentery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Before he could be sent to combat duty, a bout with amoebic dysentery led to an honorable discharge in 1944.
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2020
We returned to Washington without our luggage or the signed contract, though we did carry back a memorable souvenir: amoebic dysentery.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2017
During a programme on coral health in Indonesia, everyone who went into the water, including Harvell, came down with amoebic dysentery.
From Nature • Feb. 15, 2017
But the heavy farm work, plus malaria and amoebic dysentery, bore down relentlessly on the family.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first time he'd gone as an infant he’d nearly died of amoebic dysentery.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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