dysentery
noun /ˈdɪsəntri/
/ˈdɪsənteri/
[uncountable]- an infection of the bowels that causes severe diarrhoea with loss of blood
see also amoebic dysenteryTopics Illnessc2痢疾 Collocations Dictionaryadjective- amoebic
- attack
- outbreak
词源late Middle English: from Old French dissenterie, or via Latin from Greek dusenteria, from dusenteros ‘afflicted in the bowels’, from dus- ‘bad’ + entera ‘bowels’.