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Answer for the clue "Frequent and watery bowel movements ", 8 letters:
diarrhea

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Word definitions for diarrhea in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diarrhea \Di`ar*rhe"a\, Diarrhoea \Di`ar*rh[oe]"a\, (d[imac]`ar*r[=e]"[.a]), n. [L. diarrhoea, Gr. dia`rroia, fr. dia`rrei^n to flow through; dia` + "rei^n to flow; akin to E. stream. See Stream .] (Med.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French diarrie , from Late Latin diarrhoea , from Greek diarrhoia "diarrhea" (coined by Hippocrates), literally "a flowing through," from diarrhein "to flow through," from dia- "through" (see dia- ) + rhein "to flow" (see rheum ). Respelled ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Diarrhea refers to liquid bowel movements. Diarrhea types: Bovine virus diarrhea Brainerd diarrhea Infectious diarrhea Runner's diarrhea Traveler's diarrhea Diarrhea also refers to:

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly American spelling Canadian spelling English) A condition in which the sufferer has frequent and watery bowel movements. 2 The watery excrement that comes from said bowel movements.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor [syn: diarrhoea , looseness of the bowels ]

Usage examples of diarrhea.

Diarrhea usually attends this complaint, together with difficult breathing, loss of strength, gradual decline, fever, diminution of vital forces, and finally death.

If the autonomic nervous system, which controls various functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, and intestinal movement, gets out of balance, problems within the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems may very well occur and you may experience heart palpitations or diarrhea.

Every year, there was always some stupid tourist who decided to drink from the lake or dip themself a handful of meltwater and came down with violent diarrhea, and mouth sores that lasted for ten days.

He was tortured by tuberculosis, syphilis, osteomyelitis in his jaw, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, and kidney stones.

If the inflammation is acute, the mouth is dry and parched, or as is more frequently the case, the flow of saliva is abundant and acrid, and, when swallowed, irritates the stomach and bowels, producing fever, diarrhea, griping pains, and flatulency.

While in the emergency ward he had massive diarrhea consisting of several quarts of watery fluid.

Over the next three hours he received three quarts of plasma and two quarts of salt water intravenously, to replace fluids lost from sweating and diarrhea.

Florian or Colonel Ramrod to excuse them from the next show, and often just minutes before they were due to go on, for fear that the cramps or the diarrhea were about to strike when they were variously on the trapeze, on a rosinback horse, on the tightrope or in one of the wild animal cages.

The condition of the bowels varies from constipation to diarrhea, although sometimes they are quite regular.

Osmundos and Guadalupes, Alfonsos and Violas, all suffering from infant diarrhea.

While hundreds were dying of scurvy and diarrhea, from the miserable, insufficient food, and lack of vegetables, these fellows had flour, fresh meat, onions, potatoes, green beans, and other things, the very looks of which were a torture to hungry, scorbutic, dysenteric men.

There were efficient palliatives to apply to her occasional rashes, and effective ways of ensuring that she received adequate nutrition in spite of her perennial tendency to gastric distress and diarrhea.

As the forces of the prisoners were reduced by confinement, want of exercise, improper diet, and by scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery, they were unable to evacuate their bowels within the stream or along its banks, and the excrements were deposited at the very doors of their tents.

There were near five thousand seriously ill Federals in the Stockade and Confederate States Military Prison Hospital, and the deaths exceeded one hundred per day, and large numbers of the prisoners who were walking about, and who had not been entered upon the sick reports, were suffering from severe and incurable diarrhea, dysentery, and scurvy.

The general results of my investigations upon the chronic diarrhea and dysentery of the Federal prisoners of Andersonville were similar to those of the English surgeons during the war against Russia.