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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DYS'ENTERY, n. [L. dysenteria; Gr. bad; intestines.]
A flux in which the stools consist chiefly of blood and mucus or other morbid matter, accompanied with griping of the bowels, and followed by tenesmus.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -teries) Etymology: Middle English dissenterie, from Latin dysenteria, from Greek, from dys- + enteron intestine — more at inter- Date: 14th century 1. a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection 2. diarrhea

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a disease with inflammation of the intestines, causing severe diarrhoea with blood and mucus. Derivatives: dysenteric adj. Etymology: OF dissenterie or L dysenteria f. Gk dusenteria (as DYS-, enteria f. entera bowels)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dysentery Dys"en*ter*y, n. [L. dysenteria, Gr. ?; ? ill, bad + ?, pl. ?, intestines, fr. 'ento`s within, fr. ? in, akin to E. in: cf. F. dysenterie. See Dys, and In.] (Med.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood. Note: When acute, dysentery is usually accompanied with high fevers. It occurs epidemically, and is believed to be communicable through the medium of the alvine discharges.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Dysentery is an infection in a person's intestines that causes them to pass a lot of waste, in which blood and mucus are mixed with the person's faeces.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

dis'-en-ter-i (dusenteria):

In Ac 28:8 the Revised Version (British and American) uses this word in place of the phrase "bloody flux" of the King James Version to describe the disease by which the father of Publius was affected in Malta at the time of Paul's shipwreck. The acute form of this disease is often attended with high temperature, hence, Luke speaks of it as "fever and dysentery" (puretois kai dusenteria).

The disease is still occasionally epidemic in Malta where there have been several bad outbreaks among the garrison in the last century, and it has proved to be an intractable and fatal disease there. It is due to parasitic microbe, the Bacillus dysenteriae. In 2Ch 21:19 there is reference to an epidemic of a similar nature in the days of Jehoram. The malady, as predicted by Elisha, attacked the king and assumed a chronic form in the course of which portions of the intestine sloughed. This condition sometimes occurs in the amoebic form of dysentery, cases of which sometimes last over two years.

Alexander Macalister

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Bloody flux.

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