dysentery

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If rice has been stored in the palay houses until it is sweated it is in every way a healthful, nutritious food, but when eaten before it sweats it often produces diarrhea, usually leading to an acute bloody dysentery which is often followed by vomiting and a sudden collapse -- as in Asiatic cholera.

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  1. noun An inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract, usually caused by a bacterial, parasitic, or protozoan infection and resulting in pain, fever, and severe diarrhea, often accompanied by the passage of blood and mucus.

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  1. Middle English dissenterie, from Old French, from Latin dysenteria, from Greek dusenteriā : dus-, dys- + enteron, intestine; see en in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly dysenterie; from French dysenterie, dyssenterie = Spanish disenteria = Portuguese dysenteria = Italian disenteria, dissenteria = Dutch dyssenterie = German dysenterie = Danish Swedish dysenteri, from Latin dysenteria, from Greek δυσεντερία, dysentery, from δυσέντερος, suffering in the bowels, from δυσ-, bad, ill, + ἐντερον, plural ἐντερα, the bowels: see entero-.
 

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