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diarrhoea

Noun

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A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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All the casualties exhibited cholera symptoms such as vomiting, watery diarrhoea in large volumes and dehydration. Source: Internet

After a series of tests, he concluded the diarrhoea was "factitious" and likely caused by a secretly administered laxative agent. Source: Internet

"Antibiotics, although they are wonderful at treating infections they all have side fix and everyone knows about getting diarrhoea and an itchy rash and it can ever weird things like change of skin colour," he said. Source: Internet

Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 2001, page 104. As one researcher has noted: "To understand the popularity of a medicine that eased -- even if only temporarily -- coughing, diarrhoea and pain, one only has to consider the living conditions at the time". Source: Internet

But, hand washing, personal hygiene and protection practices should be ingrained in our minds forever as we will soon be grappling with diarrhoea, malaria and dengue. Source: Internet

Bloody diarrhoea requires management strategies that are markedly different from those of watery and persistent diarrhoea. Source: Internet

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