lientery

American  

[lahy-uhn-ter-ee] / ˈlaɪ ənˌtɛr i /

noun

Pathology.

1. a form of diarrhea in which the food is discharged undigested or only partly digested.

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lientery British  

/ ˈlaɪəntərɪ, -trɪ /

noun

1. pathol the passage of undigested food in the faeces

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Other Word Forms

• lienteric adjective

Etymology

Origin of lientery

1540–50; < Medieval Latin līenteria < Greek leientería, equivalent to leî ( os ) smooth + énter ( a ) bowels + -ia -y ³

Example Sentences

Lientery is the term applied when imperfectly changed food appears in the stools.

From Project Gutenberg

Lientery, lī′en-ter-i, n. a form of diarrhœa, with frequent liquid evacuations in which the food is discharged undigested.—adj.

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After eight, ten, or twelve, Days, if the Disorder was not complicated with any other, there remained little or no Fever, unless where some Accident supervened; tho’ in Cases which terminated fatally, towards the latter End came on a Fever of a low malignant Kind, attended with black fetid Stools, Lientery, Hiccup, Stupor, and other bad Symptoms.

From Project Gutenberg

But this disease is sometimes of a dangerous nature; the intestinal absorption being so impaired, that the aliment is said to come away undiminished in quantity, and almost unchanged by the powers of digestion, and is then called lientery.

From Project Gutenberg

Venus causes sores, lientery, hysteria, sickness at the stomach, from cold and moist causes, disorders of the liver and lungs.

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