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Another word for dysentery

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Noun
  1. See also:

    disease

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Sentence Examples

  • Fever, dysentery and ophthalmia, chiefly due to exposure to heavy dews and cold nights, are prevalent.

  • Milder cases of malarial fever are apt to become dangerous from the complications of dysentery, bronchitis or pneumonia.

  • He died five days afterwards, either of dysentery or by violence.

  • His old enemy dysentery soon found him out.

  • The only other disease to which reference need be made here is dysentery, which sometimes breaks out after the long confinement bees are compelled to undergo during severe winters.

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