DIARRHOEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diarrhoea mean? 

• DIARRHOEA (noun)
  The noun DIARRHOEA has 1 sense:

1. frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor

  Familiarity information: DIARRHOEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIARRHOEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

diarrhea; diarrhoea; looseness; looseness of the bowels

Hypernyms ("diarrhoea" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diarrhoea"):

the shits; the trots (obscene terms for diarrhea)

Montezuma's revenge (diarrhea contracted in Mexico or Central America)

Holonyms ("diarrhoea" is a part of...):

dysentery (an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea)

Derivation:

diarrhoeal; diarrhoetic (of or relating to diarrhea)

 Context examples 

Symptoms include abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea, weight loss and fatigue.

(New prognostic test could enable personalised treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, University of Cambridge)

A low-cost device that infuses small amounts of chlorine into water drawn from public taps can reduce child diarrhoea by 23 per cent, according to a study conducted in Bangladesh.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

It has long been observed that some individuals experience only mild disease while others experience severe dehydrating diarrhoea on infection with ETEC.

(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

Our study alone has identified 111 medicinal applications to treat 76 illnesses or symptoms, including asthma and diarrhoea, or their anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties in the treatment of dermatological problems, notes researcher Martí March-Salas of the MNCN.

(Scientists examine the ethnobotanical uses of stramonium, University of Granada)

Through a simple blood test, clinicians can now predict which patients are likely to suffer severe dehydrating diarrhoea and in need of closer medical attention.

(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

Diarrhoeal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years of age and is responsible for killing some 525,000 children every year, according to the WHO, while UNICEF says nearly 60 per cent of deaths due to diarrhoea worldwide are attributable to unsafe drinking water and poor hygiene and sanitation.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

According to the study, a protein identified as EtpA and secreted by various strains of ETEC interacts with the intestinal epithelial cells of blood group A individuals causing severe diarrhoea.

(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

More than 50 per cent of piped water samples in Dhaka were found to be contaminated with Escherichia coli, a bacterium responsible for diarrhoea and an important cause of childhood mortality in the Asia-Pacific region.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

We are not suggesting that we should be blood typing all individuals with diarrhoea, but individuals with blood group A appear to be at highest risk for severe infection and stand to benefit the most in terms of preventing the most severe form of illness, Fleckenstein tells.

(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)