Meaning | frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor. |
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Synonyms | diarrhea, looseness of the bowels, looseness |
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Part of | dysentery | An infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea |
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Narrower | Montezuma's revenge | diarrhea contracted in Mexico or Central America |
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the shits, the trots | obscene terms for diarrhea |
Broader | symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
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Spanish | colitis, descomposición, diarrea |
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Catalan | diarrea |
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Adjectives | diarrhoeal, diarrhoetic | of or relating to diarrhea |
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