dysentery Definition
dys·en·tery (dis′ən ter′ē)
dysentery Related Forms
dys′·en·ter′ic adjective
dysentery Synonyms
dysentery
n.
dysentery Usage Examples
Converse of object
- contract: Many fell ill on the march, including Venables himself who contracted dysentery.
- cause: The pathogens include bacteria which cause dysentery, viruses responsible for polio and hepatitis, and many others.
- get: I has been traveling in the Middle East and India in the spring of 1965 and got dysentery.
- have: Men relieved themselves where they were, many had dysentery.
- include: Diseases related to poor sanitation include dysentery, hepatitis, bilharzia, guinea worm, hook worm and tape worm.
- catch: With the difficulty of keeping clean, it was inevitable that so many would catch dysentery.
Adjective modifier
- amoebic: John Roger Stuart Moss died of amoebic dysentery on 20th June 1943.
- bacillary: The complete absence of latrines was responsible for the ground being fouled and for the outbreak of bacillary dysentery.
- bacterial: In one study, andrographis was given to 1,611 people with bacterial dysentery and 955 people with diarrhea.
- amebic: Amebic dysentery is caused by the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
Modifies a noun
- bacterium: The dysentery bacteria must be swallowed to cause disease.
- case: Owing to the small hospital accommodation many dysentery cases had to sleep with the men.
- wing: We had in addition a dysentery wing holding 50.
- patient: Number Nineteen was known as the Death Hut, devoted to dysentery patients and to the dying.
- ward: I was then posted to BMH Fayid where I was an orderly and worked on the dysentery ward.
- sufferer: The dysentery sufferers were taken off the ship and returned to the Woodlands Camp.
Noun used with modifier
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