what is dysentery???
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Inflammation of the intestines accompanied by blo.ody diarrhoea.
Dysentery is most often caused by shigella bacteria (shig.ellosis) or an amoeba. Dysentery is often spread through contaminated food or water.
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infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhoea with the presence of blood and mucus in the faeces.
Origin
late Middle English: from Old French dissenterie, or via Latin from Greek dusenteria, from dusenteros ‘afflicted in the bowels’, from dus- ‘bad’ + entera ‘bowels’.
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