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

• swine: Swine dysentery can survive in mice for 180 days. Men off sick?

• lamb: The inoculation was probably for braxy, louping-ill or lamb dysentery.