diarrhea

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Some practical steps being taken in India include reducing the burden on health professionals by training housewives to give medical advice for conditions such as diarrhea, and to dispense fever medicine, oral rehydration tablets and rapid diagnostic kits for malaria and pregnancy.

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  1. noun Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.

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  • They die of dehydration caused by diarrhea, which is caused. —  Audrey Hepburn
  • Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), are multi-factorial diseases typically associated with relapsing diarrhea, which is caused by increased paracellular permeability of the intestinal epithelial lining and an intestinal hyperosmotic environment —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Some practical steps being taken in India include reducing the burden on health professionals by training housewives to give medical advice for conditions such as diarrhea, and to dispense fever medicine, oral rehydration tablets and rapid diagnostic kits for malaria and pregnancy. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • He has saved thousands from certain death from malaria, diarrhea, and other easily treatable illnesses.
  • Symptoms of salmonella poisoning include diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within eight to 72 hours. —  All Bronx News, All the Time !
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  1. Middle English diaria, from Medieval Latin, from Late Latin diarrhoea, from Greek diarroia, from diarrein, to flow through : dia-, dia- + rhein, to flow, run; see sreu- in Indo-European roots.
 

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