dysentery
noun
an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic.
dysenteric
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a word derived from
dysentery.
Example Sentences
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To a man reduced in strength and chronically affected with dysenteric symptoms ever likely to be aggravated by exposure, the effect may be well conceived!
Xenophon, the best of them, offered up sacrifices, believed in oracles, consulted soothsayers, turned pale at a jay, and was dysenteric at a magpie.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
On the 7th the surgeon's mate of the Supply died of a dysenteric complaint.
From the very debilitated state of some of the crew, from dysenteric affections contracted at Timor, we were not able to leave Swan River before the 25th of October.
A second class is composed of cases in which the stools are decidedly dysenteric, small, frequent, bloody, with tenesmus and great pain; high fever, restlessness and sleeplessness.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
