diarrhea : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: diarrhea	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for diarrhea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
diarrhea n frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor Synonym(s): diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, looseness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Diarrhea \Di`arrhe"a\, Diarrhd2a \Di`arrh[d2]"a\, n. [L. diarrhoea, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to flow through; [?] + [?] to flow; akin to E. stream. See {Stream}.] (Med.) 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.