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Diarrhea   /dˌaɪərˈiə/   Listen
Diarrhea

noun
1.
Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor.  Synonyms: diarrhoea, looseness, looseness of the bowels.



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"Diarrhea" Quotes from Famous Books



... but I am convinced that repetition of some of the matters treated, especially if the repetition be in a somewhat different connection, is not such a very bad thing. I have used my blue pencil sparingly, and as a consequence the consecutive reader will find that constipation, diarrhea, biliousness, indigestion, auto-infection and proctitis are treated in nearly all the chapters—but with varying applications. Therefore anyone suffering from one of these complaints would better ...
— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

... place from the sensitive surfaces, through the cerebro-spinal and sympathetic systems to the involuntary muscles and secreting organs.—Imprudent exposure of the integument to cold and wet, will often bring on a diarrhea. Mental and moral impressions, conveyed through the special senses, will affect the motions of the heart, and disturb the processes of digestion and secretion. Terror, or an absorbing interest of any kind, will produce a dilatation of the pupil, and communicate in this way a peculiarly ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce



Words linked to "Diarrhea" :   dysentery, the trots, diarrhetic, the shits, Montezuma's revenge, symptom



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