Usually means: Infection causing severe diarrhea, dehydration.
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  1. dysentery: Merriam-Webster
  2. dysentery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dysentery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dysentery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dysentery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dysentery, dysentery: Wordnik
  7. dysentery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dysentery: Wiktionary
  9. dysentery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dysentery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dysentery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dysentery: Dictionary.com
  13. dysentery: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dysentery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dysentery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dysentery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dysentery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dysentery: Rhymezone
  19. Dysentery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dysentery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dysentery: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dysentery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dysentery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dysentery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. dysentery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. dysentery: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dysentery: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Dysentery: Merck Manuals
  6. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  10. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  11. dysentery: Medical dictionary
  12. Dysentery: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Dysentery, Dysentery, Dysentery: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See dysenteries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
noun:  Diarrhea.

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