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Dysentery vs Enterocolitis - What's the difference?

dysentery | enterocolitis |

As nouns the difference between dysentery and enterocolitis

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 enterocolitis is inflammation of the mucous membranes of the small intestine and of the colon.

dysentery

English

(wikipedia 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.
  • * {{quote-song
    • , 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

    enterocolitis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membranes of the small intestine and of the colon