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dysentery

noun
🔊/ˈdɪsəntri/
🔊/ˈdɪsənteri/
 [uncountable]
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  1. an infection of the bowels that causes severe diarrhoea with loss of blood 痢疾see also amoebic dysenteryTopics Illnessc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • amoebic
    … of dysentery
    • attack
    • outbreak
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French dissenterie, or via Latin from Greek dusenteria, from dusenteros ‘afflicted in the bowels’, from dus- ‘bad’ + entera ‘bowels’.