diarrheal
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- antidiarrheal adjective
- nondiarrheal adjective
- post-diarrheal adjective
Example Sentences
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More than 4 billion people around the world lack access to safely managed water, and fecal contamination contributes to millions of cases of diarrheal illness each year, especially among children.
From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026
Every day, dozens of people arrive with respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, skin conditions and eye infections -- ailments that spread quickly in crowded conditions with little clean water.
From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025
The first, diarrheal disease, often spreads when flooding overwhelms local sanitation infrastructure and causes drinking-water supplies to be contaminated.
From Salon • Dec. 12, 2023
There are many species of Vibrio, including Vibrio cholerae — the cause of the diarrheal disease cholera, which kills tens of thousands of people per year in the Global South.
From Scientific American • Oct. 24, 2023
As soon as this happened, Ophelia told me, diarrheal disease and infant deaths began dropping.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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