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Definition of Amebic 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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amebic Dysentery
Literary usage of Amebic dysentery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"Jour., 1916, clxxv, 375) says that the predominant use of emetin is in the
treatment of amebic dysentery, and the history of the empirical use of ipecac, ..."
2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"The prevention of amebic dysentery consists in a search for and control of
carriers, also mild, ... Contrast between Bacillary and amebic dysentery. ..."
3. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"Inspired by this work we sought to verify the effects of adrenalin in the treatment
of amebic dysentery, a disease observed amongst us for many years, ..."
4. A Manual of the practice of medicine by Arthur Albert Stevens (1915)
"amebic dysentery Etiology.—-This form of dysentery prevails chiefly in the tropics,
but sporadic cases and even small epidemics not very rarely occur in ..."
5. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"amebic dysentery (Amebic Colitis).—amebic dysentery is not, strictly speaking,
a disease of infancy and childhood. ..."
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