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Dysentery vs Amoebiasis - What's the difference?

dysentery | amoebiasis |

As nouns the difference between dysentery and amoebiasis

is that dysentery is a disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high volume of diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces while amoebiasis is an infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica; amoebic dysentery.

dysentery

Noun

  • (pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high volume of diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
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  • , year = 1959 , title = In Old Mexico , composer = (Tom Lehrer) , passage = We ate, we drank, and we were merry / and we got typhoid and dystentery . }}

    Derived terms

    * dysenteric * amoebic dysentery

    See also

    * shigellosis

    amoebiasis

    English

    Alternative forms

    * amebiasis

    Noun

    (amoebiases)
  • (medicine) An infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica ; amoebic dysentery