dysentery
noun
an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic.
dysenteries
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pluralof dysentery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"They've got tuberculosis, Salmonella, all the dysenteries," says Rodger Farr, a psychiatrist who ministers to the homeless of Los Angeles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pernicious fevers, malignant dysenteries and cholera had decimated both rebels and loyalists; war and sickness had marched hand in hand to make of this fair oasis of the Soudan a wilderness painful to contemplate.
From Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People by Dr. Henri Blanc
Sudden changes of temperature drove the eruption from the surface to the internal organs, and fevers, lung and typhoid, and dysenteries followed.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
The Leaves.—Their taste is roughish, bitter, pungent, and extremely unpleasant: they stand strongly recommended by Simon Pauli against dysenteries; but their forbidding taste has prevented its coming into practice.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
Fevers and dysenteries, snakes and musquitoes, the plantain and the palm, we had left behind.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
