Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A morbidly frequent evacuation of the bowels, generally arising from inflammation or irritation of the mucous membrane of the intestines, and commonly caused by errors in regimen, as the use of food hurtful from its quantity or quality; intestinal catarrh.
Wiktionary
- n. A condition in which the sufferer has frequent and watery bowel movements.
- n. The watery excrement that comes from said bowel movements.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek διάρροια ("through-flowing"), from διά (dia, "through") + ῥέω (rheō, "flow"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English diaria, from Medieval Latin, from Late Latin diarrhoea, from Greek diarroia, from diarrein, to flow through : dia-, dia- + rhein, to flow, run. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A marine with diarrhea is being chased by a Japanese soldier waving a bayonet.”
“Your verbal diarrhea is a simple reaction to decades of mental constipation.”
“See thats their problem, their use to the diarrhea from the lips of there px chicken-hawked hero ` s and now with no teeth there meals a full of that tough sh!”
“A fever of 104 plus a day full of diarrhea is no fun at all.”
“I'm pretty sure our societal diarrhea is a direct result of irritable GOPers and neocons agitating the extreme right-wing of their party solely for political gain.”
“Has anyone ever travelled with small children, or gotten a case of diarrhea from the airplane food?”
“If you get a good bout of diarrhea from a waterborne disease," she says, "you really understand what it means to have access to clean drinking water.”
“The latter, his verbosity, or really a propensity towards verbal diarrhea, is what is potentially toxic in the modern campaign.”
“The authors identified 63 medical trials that compared probiotics to placebo or to no probiotics for treating short-term diarrhea in 8,014 people, mostly children.”
The Wall Street Journal: Probiotics Help Settle Stomachs, Study Says
“Microscopic flora vary from region to region, and traveler's diarrhea is a common and uncomfortable consequence.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘diarrhea’.
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• Little pains in my butt
Annoying, little, things. In a single word.
psoriasis, interjections, sultriness, spam, mice, mosquitoes, dust, mould, ipod, pimple, blister, sliver and 93 more...
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"That is NOT a Christmas word!" Part ...
Open list! Have at! (Inspired—or was that inspissated?—by my other list from 2007, seen here.) Except for the honorary first addition (thanks sionnach), please try to add only words you hear in...
casu marzu, uranist, rape, shin-kicking, broken darlings, forcible egg-nog ..., pubic, smell it, cavity, diarrhea, octopus, touch your mustard and 40 more...
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What the H?
Words that I could probably spell correctly without having to look them up every single damn time were it not for an apparently extraneous and randomly placed h.
jodhpur, diarrhea, ankh, myrrh, hemorrhoids, baghdad, rhombus, rhythm, hemorrhage, sheikh, catarrh, maharajah and 21 more...
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diseases that make lovely baby girl's...
usually i try to restrict this to sexually transmitted diseases, but some of the others are just so musical. Syphilis, it should be noted, would make a lovely boy's name, but that is outside the sc...
gonorrhea, chlamydia, roseola, rubella, angina, atrophy, candida, cholera, jaundice, palsy, leukemia, alopecia and 50 more...
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fredrx's beautiful sounding list
two most beautiful words when put together
womb, philistine, poignant, wombastic, eschelon, macabre, precipitous, panache, misogynist, placebo, cacophony, aplomb and 43 more...
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1stDay
lucid, tenacious, adhesive, cling, reconcile, scenic, picturesque, inundate, gastrointestinal, diarrhea, heredity, alimentary canal and 89 more...
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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Ugliest Words Ever
words that I refuse to say out loud.
tuna, uranus, bulbous, vaginal, rectum, cunnilingus, flatulance, pedagogy, blooper, booger, beefy, polyp and 116 more...
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-rrhea, -rrhoea, rheo-
discharge, flow
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American vs British
Every word that is unique in either American or British English or used differently in both
anymore, alright, trapezium, trapezoid, centre, center, flyer, flier, diarrhoea, diarrhea, hobnob, nappy and 4 more...
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Words from "The Ghost Map"
"The Ghost Map", by steven Johnson, is a fascinating account of the (successful) investigation by two men, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, into the means by which cholera is transmitted, following t...
ghost map, epidemiology, dot map, voronoi diagram, index case, cholera, experimentum crucis, vibrio cholerae, microbe, germ theory, public health, animalcula and 61 more...
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Words that i absolutely hate
some of these word i just hate because they disgust me others are just disrespectful.
whore, cunt, piss, secretion, puke, up-chuck, pus, diarrhea, fagot, phlegm, panties, clog and 14 more...
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d is for depressing!
dolorous, damaging, depressing, drab, dull, dumb, derelict, decaying, dubious, doubtful, dreadful, dangerous and 86 more...
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Attractive sounding words
ingot, sylph, synechdoche, apotheosis, soliloquy, irascible, diarrhea, dubious, mellifluous, sobriquet, aleatory, panoply and 31 more...
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Chase's Words
turd, pie, big cheese, blow chunks, hurl, doohicky, diarrhea, no, scat, spleen, toe jam
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Nightmares!
Concepts that I hate to think about, and other stuff that should just GO AWAY.
onychogryposis, chunky milk, dismemberment, diarrhea, biological warfare, sam, bureaucracy, torture, intraocular injec..., the terminator, rape, rabbit punch and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for diarrhea.
fredrx beautiful sounding word with aweful connotation Oct 23, 2008