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Frequent and watery bowel movements
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diarrhoea
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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 ...
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: diarrhea , looseness of the bowels ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
variant spelling of diarrhea (q.v.); see also oe .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE acute ▪ What to do about diarrhoea Acute attacks of diarrhoea should be taken very seriously indeed, especially in small babies. ▪ Giardia lamblia produces a wide spectrum of infection in man ranging from asymptomatic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly British spelling English) (alternative spelling of diarrhea English)
Usage examples of diarrhoea.
Hookworms, tapeworms, pinworms, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea, hepatitis, salmonella and dozens of other diseases have been attributed to the house fly.
She had suffered from canker, indigestion, and diarrhoea for a year previous to her delivery.
They couldn't get amoebic dysentery and could barely get diarrhoea, because this relatively harmless worm had its own defences that killed competitors.
As it is also a tonic for the stomach, it is very useful in diarrhoea, chronic dysentery, cholera infantum, and torpidity of the liver.
I sat there behind the wheel of my car, not sure what I should do, wishing I was someplace else, anyplace else, trying on shoes at Thom McAn's, filling out a credit application in a discount store, standing in front of a pay toilet stall with diarrhoea and no dime.
One of the best remedies for diarrhoeas of teething children, due to poor assimilation of food.
Wilber, Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth New York, low with chronic diarrhœa, and a bad wound also.
Then the diarrhœa had prostrated him, and I felt that he was even then the same as dying.
I should say of the sick, from my observation, that the prevailing maladies are typhoid fever and the camp fevers generally, diarrhœa, catarrhal affections and bronchitis, rheumatism and pneumonia.
Nausea, maybe, diarrhoea, dizziness, tinnitusthat's ringing in the earsbreathing difficulties, gastric haemorrhages, oedema of gastric mucosa, possible rupture of the oesophagus.
Nausea, maybe, diarrhoea, dizziness, tinnitus-that's ringing in the ears-breathing difficulties, gastric haemorrhages, oedema of gastric mucosa, possible rupture of the oesophagus.
Used in herbal medicine in diarrhoea and as an emmenagogue, the infusion of 1 OZ.
It was at one time included in the London Materia Medica as a vulnerary herb, but modern official medicine does not recognize its virtues, though it is still fully appreciated in herbal practice as a mild astringent and tonic, useful in coughs, diarrhoea and relaxed bowels.
It has for long been used in secondary syphilis, diarrhoea, ulcerations, ophthalmia, and any conditions arising from a scrofulous constitution.
The days passed, dissolving into each other under the force of the returning rain, and despite chills fevers diarrhoea they stayed alive, improving their shelter by pulling down the lower branches of sundris and mangroves, drinking the red milk of nipa‑fruits, acquiring the skills of survival, such as the power of strangling snakes and throwing sharpened sticks so accurately that they speared multicoloured birds through their gizzards.