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bacillary dysentery

American  

noun

Pathology.
  1. shigellosis.


Etymology

Origin of bacillary dysentery

First recorded in 1905–10

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Nonetheless, seven have died of bacillary dysentery in New Jersey, 278 have been hospitalized since July.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man as obsessive about germs as Hughes could hardly be comforted by the knowledge that outbreaks of polio and bacillary dysentery afflict the republic.

From Time Magazine Archive

A whiskery, rod-shaped germ called Bacillus dysenteriae and related to both the colon and typhoid fever germs causes bacillary dysentery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shigellosis, a bacillary dysentery that is a virulent and highly infectious intestinal disease, is epidemic in Central America, where it has attacked more than a thousand people in Guatemala alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some forms a protozoan, the Amoeba dysenteriae, is found in the stools—this is the amoebic dysentery; in other cases a bacillus, Bacillus dysenteriae, is found—the bacillary dysentery.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

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