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Melena vs Dysentery - What's the difference?

melena | dysentery |

As nouns the difference between melena and dysentery

is that melena is a passage of dark, tarry stools containing blood, as the result of upper gastrointestinal bleeding while 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.

melena

English

(wikipedia melena)

Alternative forms

* melaena *

Noun

  • A passage of dark, tarry stools containing blood, as the result of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

    • Anagrams

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    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