Vocabulary Word
Word: dysentery
Definition: inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract
Definition: inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract
Sentences Containing 'dysentery'
The Indian basil peepal works wonders in treating dysentery.
Old wives' tales often discourage unwanted behavior, usually in children, or for folk cures for ailments ranging from a toothache to dysentery.
After Francis Drake died of dysentery in 1596 at sea, he was said to be buried in a lead coffin near Portobelo Bay.
He suffered from dysentery for twenty days and then died.
Because she has dysentery, Mary leaves for Nairobi to see a doctor; while she is gone Ernest kills a leopard, after which the men have a protracted "ngoma".
After serving as an assistant physician in Oslo he took the doctor medicinae degree in 1935 with the doctoral thesis "Studies on the Dissociation of the Dysentery Bacilli".
It will kill the causative agents of typhoid, gastroenteritis (some agents), rabies, enteric fever, cholera, several forms of meningitis, whooping cough, gonorrhea and several types of dysentery.
In prison he was tortured by being made to eat salty food without adequate drink and by restricting the oxygen in his dirty, crowded and unventilated cell; he contracted dysentery and died.
After returning to Damascus in July 1149, Mu'in ad-Din "ate a hearty meal, as was his usual custom, and was seized thereafter by a loosening of the bowels...From this resulted in the disease known as dysentery..."
In 1259 Möngke died of cholera or dysentery during the battle of Diaoyucheng that was defended by Wang Jian.
The death metal band Wayd was founded in 1994 when thrash metal band MARION and death metal band DYSENTERY fused together.
Pierce then informs Radar that rabies and dysentery are two of the most prevalent diseases in Korea, and that the dog needs to be tested to see if it is a carrier.
Aimee Semple McPherson held the largest outdoor baptism to date before 10,000 spectators in the Idora Park swimming tanks after returning from the "Orient" following the death of her husband, Robert James Semple from
dysentery.
The English also began to fall sick rather early into the siege, and it is estimated that one sixteenth of the besiegers died from dysentery and smallpox.
She stayed with the Nidevers upon her return to civilization, but contracted dysentery and died only a few weeks later.
Between 1812 and 1820 a cholera-like disease spread throughout the region, a fatal form of dysentery, as well as ague and bilious fevers.
The vessel returned successfully to Naples in 1868 but de Filippi died in Hong Kong from dysentery during the previous year.
A dysentery epidemic spread through the Allied trenches at Anzac and Helles, while the Ottomans also suffered heavily from disease which resulted in many deaths.
Included among this may be as many as Many soldiers became sick due to the unsanitary conditions, especially from enteric fever, dysentery and diarrhoea.