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diarrhoea

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Noun

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di=ar=rhoe=a

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun diarrhoea has 1 sense

diarrhoea(n = noun.state) diarrhea, 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 diarrhoeal₁, adjective diarrhoetic₁

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

diarrhoea, n. (esp. US diarrhea) a condition of excessively frequent and loose bowel movements.

Derivative

diarrhoeal adj. diarrhoeic adj.

Etymology

ME f. LL f. Gk diarrhoia (as DIA-, rheo flow)

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ROGET THESAURUS

diarrhoea

Excretion

N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.

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