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  • noun Plural form of diarrhea.

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Examples

  • - You know the smell of different diarrheas and can identify them.

    Life of a Nurse « You Got to be Kidding's Blog 2009

  • This disease is habitual to them both in summer and in winter, and in addition they are very subject to dropsies of a most fatal character; and in summer dysenteries, diarrheas, and protracted quartan fevers frequently seize them, and these diseases when prolonged dispose such constitutions to dropsies, and thus prove fatal.

    On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

  • GUPTA: They should see a doctor and a lot of times there's not going to be an antibiotic and some people actually recommend against anti-diarrheas.

    CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2006 2006

  • For most diarrheas, antibiotics are not necessary and may even be harmful.

    Chapter 14 1993

  • For most diarrheas, medicine is not needed, and may do more harm than good.

    Chapter 8 1993

  • In Letters [NYR, June 15], Stephen Rothman takes Peter Singer to task for suggesting that human life is better served by allocating more money to such things as oral fluid rehydration for Third World diarrheas and less money to animal research.

    They Didn't Use Animals D.V.M., Bruce Max Feldmann 1989

  • Third World people are dying right and left from diarrheas.

    They Didn't Use Animals D.V.M., Bruce Max Feldmann 1989

  • Rothman claims that oral fluid rehydration of Third World diarrheas is a treatment "based on many years of animal experimentation."

    They Didn't Use Animals D.V.M., Bruce Max Feldmann 1989

  • In the developing countries, the diarrheas and dysenteries cause hundreds Or millions Or illnesses and millions Or infant deaths each year.

    Chapter 6 1985

  • However, the diarrheas and dysenteries are more important because Or the infant deaths and huge numbers Or illnesses they cause.

    Chapter 6 1985

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