Diarrhea

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A condition in which the sufferer has frequent and watery bowel movements.
  • n. The watery excrement that comes from said bowel movements.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A morbidly frequent evacuation of the bowels, generally arising from inflammation or irritation of the mucous membrane of the intestines, and commonly caused by errors in regimen, as the use of food hurtful from its quantity or quality; intestinal catarrh.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
  • Equivalent
    diarrhœa   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    symptom   
    Hyponym
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flux    laxity    looseness    lask    skit    cholera    cholerine    dysentery    lientery    scour   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aliyah    Althea    Caesarea    Corea    Crimea    Cytherea    Dorothea    Duryea    Eritrea    Gaea   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dysentery    dyspepsia    constipation    rheumatism    nausea    diarrhoea    insomnia    ulcer    asthma    heartburn