1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. diarrhoea

Find the word definition

What is "diarrhoea"

Crossword clues for diarrhoea

diarrhoea
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diarrhoea
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 carriage through acute to persistent diarrhoea with intestinal malabsorption.
chronic
▪ Children who are malnourished with chronic diarrhoea have defective gastric acid secretion.
▪ Cryptosporidium is a cause of chronic diarrhoea and a proximal small intestinal mucosal enteropathy in children without immune deficiency.
▪ Twenty eight patients with chronic diarrhoea were included in the study.
▪ They include poor growth, recurrent chest infections, chronic diarrhoea and skin infections.
▪ Screening for the parasite should be part of the investigative procedures in children with chronic diarrhoea.
▪ Twenty nine percent of cases had a mixed infection, and chronic diarrhoea was more frequent in these patients.
▪ Indeed, chronic diarrhoea has been an infrequently reported finding in studies of immunocompetent children with Cryptosporidium.
▪ We have previously reported two cases associated with chronic diarrhoea, failure to thrive and a proximal small intestinal enteropathy.
severe
▪ In severe infections, diarrhoea is the most prominent clinical sign.
▪ This normally occurs after any sudden and serious loss of blood or after excessive fluid loss following a severe bout of diarrhoea.
▪ Milk taken at breakfast time produced itchy skin by lunchtime, and severe bloating and diarrhoea in the afternoon.
watery
▪ She developed a mild watery diarrhoea after two months of treatment but this resolved after gold injections were temporarily stopped.
▪ Symptoms included nausea, vomiting, and watery diarrhoea.
▪ The commonest clinical symptom associated with V cholerae non-O1 infection is watery diarrhoea, mild to moderate in severity.
■ VERB
cause
▪ This protozoal gut infection often causes diarrhoea.
▪ Constipation can also cause incontinence and diarrhoea.
▪ One patient had identified alcohol to cause diarrhoea.
▪ HepA can cause sickness, diarrhoea, jaundice and, in the worst case, liver failure.
suffer
▪ If you're suffering from holiday diarrhoea, you've probably got food poisoning.
▪ Reduced to one small plate of sorghum a day, all her children are suffering from diarrhoea.
▪ Several were suffering from diarrhoea or infections.
▪ They suffered severed sickness and diarrhoea.
▪ People in Wigtown suffered diarrhoea, sickness and mouth ulcers.
▪ Allitt had written in nursing notes that Liam had suffered violent sickness and diarrhoea.
▪ She suffered from diarrhoea with pain and bloating, which had been diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ If you suffer from diarrhoea, forget the usual advice about healthy fruit and high-fibre diets.
vomit
▪ This makes it vomit and gives it diarrhoea, so you're flushing the toxins out of both ends.
▪ People began to complain about feelings of sickness, vomiting, diarrhoea and headaches.
▪ Always call the doctor if you are vomiting or have diarrhoea.
▪ Symptoms included nausea, vomiting, and watery diarrhoea.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All of these factors may theoretically contribute to diarrhoea.
▪ For patients with postoperative dumping or diarrhoea it is prudent to assess gastric emptying before starting remedial surgery.
▪ Furthermore diarrhoea or weight loss were absent in a considerable proportion of infected patients.
▪ Then we realised that she'd had diarrhoea so badly it was actually oozing out of her collar!
▪ This protozoal gut infection often causes diarrhoea.
▪ We collected data on diarrhoea for all children in the villages aged between 3 months and 5 years.
▪ We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea.
▪ We have previously reported two cases associated with chronic diarrhoea, failure to thrive and a proximal small intestinal enteropathy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diarrhoea

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 or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diarrhoea

variant spelling of diarrhea (q.v.); see also oe.

Wiktionary
diarrhoea

n. (context chiefly British spelling English) (alternative spelling of diarrhea English)

Related phrases:
WordNet
diarrhoea

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]

Related phrases:

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.