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diarrhea
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Noun diarrhea has 1 sense
- diarrhea(n = noun.state) diarrhoea, looseness, looseness of the bowels - frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor; Array is a part of dysentery
is a kind of symptom
has particulars: the shits, the trots, montezuma's revenge
Derived forms adjective diarrheal1, adjective diarrhetic1
THESAURUS
diarrhea
BM, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, bloody flux, bowel movement, cachexia, cachexy, cardialgia, catharsis, chill, chills, cholera morbus, colic, constipation, convulsion, costiveness, coughing, crap, cyanosis, defecation, dejection, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, evacuation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, gripe, gripes, growth, heartburn, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, irregularity, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, lientery, loose bowels, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, movement, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, obstipation, pain, paralysis, pruritus, purgation, purge, pyrosis, rash, rheum, runs, sclerosis, seizure, shit, shits, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, stool, tabes, tachycardia, trots, tumor, turistas, upset stomach, vertigo, voidance, vomiting, wasting
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