gastroenteritis
gastroenteritis
Definition
gas·tro·en·teri·tis (gas′trō en′tər īt′is)
gastroenteritis
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- cause: Cryptosporidiosis is a type of gastroenteritis caused by the parasite Cryptosporidium which lives in the bowel.
- have: I've got a little scar under my chin from when I had gastroenteritis.
- include: Breast fed babies are less likely to suffer many serious illnesses including gastroenteritis, respiratory and ear infections, eczema and asthma as children.
Noun used with modifier
- rotavirus: The vaccines protect against rotavirus gastroenteritis, which kills about one child every minute in the developing world.
- cause: Some serovars of S. enterica such as S. typhi cause systemic infections and typhoid fever, whereas others such as S. typhimurium cause gastroenteritis.
Adjective modifier
- parasitic: I had the vet and it was mineral deficiency of cobalt, selenium and zinc, together with parasitic gastroenteritis caused by worms.
- viral: Over 200 passengers on board the Sea Princess luxury cruise ship were struck down by the norovirus bug, a form of viral gastroenteritis.
- bacterial: Because the symptoms are quite similar to acute and chronic bacterial gastroenteritis of ferrets, stool samples need to be cultured for these bacteria.
- acute: About 10 to 20 per cent of people will date the start of their symptoms to an acute gastroenteritis.
- severe: The toll is huge: severe gastroenteritis is responsible for a quarter of all deaths worldwide.
- haemorrhagic: Lesions Non-specific: generalized congestion; renal and hepatic degeneration ( variable ); haemorrhagic gastroenteritis ( occasional ).
Modifies a noun
- virus: Issue 5 May 2001 Contains articles on cellular pumps in epilepsy, how the brain marks aging and mortality, and gastroenteritis viruses.
- outbreak: The Norwalk group of viruses is the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis outbreaks in the UK.
Preposition: in
- child: Gastroenteritis in children This factsheet is for parents of children with gastroenteritis.
- adult: There is a separate BUPA factsheet for adults, Gastroenteritis in adults.
- form: Some of us were recovering, but the rest were in with gastroenteritis in one form or another.
- human: Enteric caliciviruses are newly emerging pathogens responsible for acute gastroenteritis in humans and animals.
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