Definition of Amoebic dysentery
1. Noun. Inflammation of the intestines caused by Endamoeba histolytica; usually acquired by ingesting food or water contaminated with feces; characterized by severe diarrhea.
Generic synonyms: Dysentery, Amebiasis, Amebiosis, Amoebiasis, Amoebiosis
Medical Definition of Amoebic dysentery
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Literary usage of Amoebic dysentery
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1. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1903)
"amoebic dysentery is generally chronic. 2. In amoebic dysentery the bacillus is not found. 3. In amoebic dysentery toxic symptoms are lacking, ..."
2. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of laboratory methods, for students by Charles Edmund Simon (1902)
"amoebic dysentery.—This form of dysentery is especially interesting, not so much on account of its prevalence, however, as from the ini|x>rtance attaching ..."
3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"This probably explains the endemic rather than epidemic characteristics of the spread of amoebic dysentery because if the innumerable vegetative amoebae in ..."