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dysentery
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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dysentery inflammation of the large intestine. XIV. — OF.
dissenterie or L.
dysenteria — Gr.
dusenteríā, f.
dusénteros, f.
DYS- +
éntera bowels; see
-Y 2.
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Dysentery.(Life Extension)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 10/24/2007; 616 words
; Byline: DR. GARY S. SY DYSENTERY is the body's response to an unwanted...bloody diarrhea is called amebic dysentery. Infections of shigella bacteria...shigellosis, can lead to bacillary dysentery. While cases of amebic dysentery...
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Cultural context of dysentery has implications for vaccine introduction.
Newspaper article from: Immunotherapy Weekly; 12/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...The cultural and social contexts of dysentery have implications for the introduction of a new vaccine. "Dysentery, a severe form of diarrheal disease...beliefs and behaviors associated with dysentery. The explanatory model of dysentery...
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Investigating the effects of climate variations on bacillary dysentery incidence in northeast China using ridge regression and hierarchical cluster analysis.(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Infectious Diseases; 9/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...and old people [1, 2]. Bacillary dysentery is an infectious disease of the intestinal...effects of climate variations on bacillary dysentery incidence have gained more concerns recently...accuracy of correlation with bacillary dysentery incidence. As a remedy, the improved...
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Dysentery Is the Newest Threat to Rwandan Refugees
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 7/31/1994; 700+ words
; ...the camps could cause an epidemic of dysentery. NPR's Anne Cooper is in Goma and...the treatment tent. Moratayasoni has dysentery, the latest scourge of the refugee camp...the disturbing rise in the number of dysentery cases seen in the treatment centers...
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Treatment of diarrhea and dysentery in Thailand described.
Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly; 11/30/2004; 658 words
; ...net) -- Treatment of diarrhea and dysentery in Kaengkhoi district, Saraburi province...passive surveillance study of diarrhea and dysentery at health centers and hospitals in Kaengkhoi...where they sought care for diarrhea and dysentery in children aged less than five years...
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Dysentery kills 2 in southern Nepal
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/18/2007; 386 words
; Dysentery kills 2 in southern Nepal KATHMANDU...Xinhua) -- Two persons have died of dysentery in southern Nepali district Rautahat...others in the VDC are suffering from dysentery, saidBarma. They are being treated...
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Dysentery Now Claiming the Lives of Rwandan Refugees
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/3/1994; 700+ words
; ...The World Health Organization says dysentery has replaced cholera as the main problem...me now is NPR's Mary Kay Magistad. Dysentery usually is related to contaminated water...bacteria that causes both cholera and dysentery. I guess the good news is that the cholera...
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Dysentery Strikes Rwandans as Cholera Deaths Ebb
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/31/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...disease that could claim even more lives - dysentery. Ray Wilkinson, spokesman for the U...however, about the threat from bacterial dysentery, which, like cholera, is spread by...humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders said dysentery is more deadly than cholera, usually...
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Bacillary Dysentery Cases on Sharp Rise.
Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea); 5/6/1999; 451 words
; ...a much increased number of bacillary dysentery cases this year, health authorities...persons were infected with bacillary dysentery in the first four months of this year...students tested positive for bacillary dysentery after they, along with 515 students...
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Dysentery outbreak in Trece Martires already contained.(Provincial News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 7/13/2007; 593 words
; Byline: JENNY MANONGDO The dysentery outbreak in Trece Martires City...2007. No death has been recorded. Dysentery is caused by bacteria, called Shigella...contaminated food or water. The dysentery outbreak in Trece Martires City is...
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Dysentery
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
Dysentery Definition Dysentery is a general term for a group of gastrointestinal disorders characterized...diarrhea or stools containing blood and mucus. The English word dysentery comes from two Greek words meaning "ill" or "bad" and "intestine...
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dysentery
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
dysentery , inflammation of the intestine characterized...mucus. The two most common causes of dysentery are infection with a bacillus (see bacteria...histolytica. Both bacillary and amebic dysentery are spread by fecal contamination of...
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Amebic Dysentery
Book article from: World of Microbiology and Immunology
Amebic dysentery Amebic (or amoebic) dysentery , which is also referred to as amebiasis or amoebiasis...loss leading to dehydration, and abdominal pain. Amebic dysentery is one of the two most common causes of intestinal inflammation...
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Sonne dysentery
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing
Sonne dysentery ( sonn -i) n. bacillary dysentery caused by the species Shigella sonnei. [ C. Sonne (1882–1948), Danish bacteriologist]
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amoebic dysentery
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
amoebic dysentery See AMBOEBIASIS .
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