dysentery
noun
dys·en·tery
ˈdi-sᵊn-ˌter-ē 
-ˌte-rē
plural dysenteries
1
: a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection
2
: diarrhea
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Many of the bathrooms were non-functioning, and the chamber pots were late in arriving—just as an attack of dysentery hit the camp.
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Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
Hepatitis and dysentery afflicted people already stricken with grief.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Meyer made a business of insuring people’s lives then poisoning his victims, which caused their illnesses and subsequent deaths to appear to be due to dysentery.
—Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
Malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, and in a few cases typhus, hit man after man.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
Hepatitis and dysentery afflicted people already stricken with grief.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Meyer made a business of insuring people’s lives then poisoning his victims, which caused their illnesses and subsequent deaths to appear to be due to dysentery.
—Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
Malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, and in a few cases typhus, hit man after man.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for dysentery
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“Dysentery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dysentery. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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dysentery
noun
dys·en·tery
ˈdis-ən-ˌter-ē
1
: a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood from the bowels
2
: diarrhea
Medical Definition
dysentery
noun
dys·en·tery
ˈdis-ᵊn-ˌter-ē
plural dysenteries
1
: a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection
2
: diarrhea
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