Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. chiefly British alternative spelling of diarrhea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
Examples
“The _diarrhoea crapulosa_, or diarrhoea from indigestion, occurs when too great a quantity of food or liquid has been taken; which not being compleatly digested, stimulates the intestines like any other extraneous acrid material; and thus produces an increase of the secretions into them of mucus, pancreatic juice, and bile.”
“The animal has no strength to vomit, diarrhoea is marked while the fluid passed from the rectum is often almost wholly blood.”
“But that the water might be responsible for summer diarrhoea is shown by the following: 188 In the Division the unit was supplied with boiling water, which was allowed to cool in biscuit tins.”
“According to WHO the main health risk is diarrhoea, which is spread by flies which proliferate near sewage.”
“Dysentery may be simply defined as diarrhoea containing blood.”
“In addition to killing children directly, dysentery is a common cause of persistent diarrhoea, which is responsible for”
“Repeated infections can lead to increased malnutrition which in turn increases susceptibility to further infection; this may be referred to as the diarrhoea-malnutrition cycle.”
“Repeated infections can lead to increased malnutrition which in turn increases susceptibility to further infection; this may be referred to as the diarrhoea malnutrition cycle.”
“It begins in some cases with pain and some griping, the discharges rather consistent, having a bilious appearance, so that the patient supposes it to be an ordinary bilious diarrhoea, which is not dangerous, his fears being thus quieted.”
“Injections, and drinks composed of starch and opium, are the means most likely to succeed in the black diarrhoea, which is so frequent and so fatal, and which almost always precedes the fatal termination of all the diseases connected with jaundice.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘diarrhoea’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Words that have "ae" or "oe"
Add any words you know that have these letter combinations!
acoelous, cacoethes, aeschylean, aborvitae, phaeochrous, aeneous, algae, aesthetic, aerobics, daedal, vitae, minutiae and 53 more...
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2011 Spelling Bee Bingo
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Think you can guess the word that will win the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee? We've started this open list for your guesses and if you gue...verisimilitude, schwag, zeitgeist, diarrhoea, phlox, peripatetic, psellism, tarradiddle, yemeles, corroboree, Erinacious, polatouche and 19 more...
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respelt
'He spent the greater part of his life campaigning to have respelt those words that LOOK as though they are spelt wrongly but aren't.'
Re Otto Tibbit's father, fourteen times Scrabble champio...skiing, vacuum, freest, eczema, gnu, diarrhoea, taxiing, piing, safariing, qamchiing, dooziing, hongiing and 49 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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Beautiful Words For Unpleasant Things
Mainly medical....
diarrhoea, dysphoria, anhedonia, dysphasia, eviscerate, carcinoma, purulent, pungent, horror, furuncle, cirrhosis, borborygmus and 47 more...
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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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my private spelling hell
diarrhoea, nebuchadnezzar, liaison, yield, maintenance, voluptuous, onomatopoeia, baccalaureate, ratatouille, propaedeutic, bourgeois, demeanor and 3 more...
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thomasc's Words
phrontistery, gauze, pepper, rapscallion, grizzled, scrumtrulescent, boustrephedon, diarrhoea, gesticulate, solidarity, zugzwang
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Beautiful Words
Words that are simply music to one's ear.
ephemeral, ephemera, mother, effervescent, effervescence, elixir, hush, wanderlust, diarrhoea, oak, oaken, nevermore and 35 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for diarrhoea.
bilby Crapulosa! Jan 29, 2013
erinmckean We use Flickr's safe filter ... which is, as you say, a good thing. Jan 29, 2013
bilby Are these visuals filtered/censored? Not that it mightn't be a good thing, as in the case with this page. Jan 29, 2013