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s | dysentery |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun dysentery is

(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.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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