What's the difference between diarrhea and dysentery?

Diarrhea


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Diarrhoea

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
  • (2) The results point out the importance of detecting specific virulence factors before incriminating water as a source of human diarrhea.
  • (3) Five control rabbits developed severe diarrhea within 72 h after inoculation with enterotoxigenic E. coli B16-4.
  • (4) Diarrhea and excretion of vibrios lasted longer in animals consuming less protein.
  • (5) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
  • (6) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.
  • (7) 1, diarrhea lowered the piglet's ability to maintain body temperature during the cold test.
  • (8) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
  • (9) At the village level health care is provided at integrated service posts staffed by volunteers trained to treat common health problems with simple means such as treating diarrhea with oral rehydration.
  • (10) The geometric mean titers of anti-Shigella antibodies to virulence plasmid-associated antigens in milk received before infection were eightfold higher in infants who remained well than in those in whom diarrhea developed.
  • (11) Adverse reactions associated with ticlopidine included neutropenia (severe in one patient) with no clinical complications, diarrhea, or rash.
  • (12) Chronic rotavirus-related diarrhea, which persisted until death, had also developed in each child.
  • (13) Traditional dietary preparations for diarrhea such as carrot soup and products based on rice have essentially an absorbent power and do not diminish intestinal loss of water and electrolytes.
  • (14) Diarrhea commonly occurs following the administration of cisplatin.
  • (15) A 3-year-old Limousin cow was admitted to the University of Georgia Teaching Hospital with a history of chronic weight loss and diarrhea of more than 1 year's duration.
  • (16) He had no family history of myopathy, and no diarrhea and vomiting.
  • (17) Twelve days following discontinuation of the drug, the patient continued to experience diarrhea, restlessness, emotional lability, and anxiety.
  • (18) Cryptosporidium was eradicated from the stools of four patients but two of these patients subsequently relapsed and one patient continued to have diarrhea despite the absence of Cryptosporidium in the stool.
  • (19) The only identified risk factor in the development of diarrhea was increased age; clindamycin-associated diarrhea occurred in 18 (46%) of 39 patients greater than or equal to 60 years old.
  • (20) Other causes are malaria (21), undernutrition (12), meningitidis (10), diarrhea (9), pneumopathy (7), endogenous and obstetrical causes (24).

Dysentery


Definition:

  • (n.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After an interim of no treatment for swine dysentery, sodium arsanilate was fed at a level of 220 parts per million for 21 days.
  • (2) Once a liver abscess as a sequel to amebic dysentery was diagnosed and once a megaloplastic anemia with symptoms of a funicular myelopathy following a vitamin B12 deficiency syndrome.
  • (3) Patients with reactive arthritis, sacroiliitis, spondylitis or Reiter's syndrome following intestinal infection from Yersinia, Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter organisms have been reported from endemic areas and after epidemic dysenteries.
  • (4) The role of the penetrating capacity of shigellae in the development of the pathological process in dysentery is discussed.
  • (5) From 1985 to 1988, fecal samples of 950 hospitalized children suffering from diarrhea or dysentery were screened for Shigella species using standard methods.
  • (6) The target lesions included 1) pyoderma caused by Staphylococcus aureus, 2) cryptococcal infection, 3) dermal sporotrichosis, 4) colon ulcer caused by amebic dysentery, 5) cutaneous leishmaniasis, and 6) chronic liver abscess containing ova of Ascaris lumbricoides.
  • (7) A 39 year-old Japanese homosexual male was diagnosed as amebic dysentery complicated with liver abscess on admission.
  • (8) Among the causative agents of Flexner's dysentery, S. flexneri 2a, 6 and 1b (in different combinations) play the leading role.
  • (9) Shigella flexneri, a Gram-negative bacillus belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, causes bacillary dysentery in humans by invading colonic epithelial cells.
  • (10) For this reason, the epidemiological surveillance on Grigor'ev-Shiga dysentery should be drastically strengthened.
  • (11) The authors studied the immunoglobulin and specific antibodies content of various classes in the serum, coprofiltrates and the saliva of 68 patients suffering from Sonne dysentery and in 48 healthy adult persons.
  • (12) Escherichia coli strains that cause dysentery-like disease, parenteral infection, and infantile diarrhea form specific groups based on mobility of O and K antigens in immunoelectrophoresis.
  • (13) This paper explores the epidemiologic importance of dysentery with use of several community studies that demonstrate its prevalence and incidence as well as its association with pathogens, nutritional status, persistent diarrhea, and death.
  • (14) was always above 25 per cent from patients with dysentery and greater than 7 per cent from those with watery diarrhoea during the post-epidemic years.
  • (15) The use of a faecal preservative and several staining methods, together with formalin ether concentration, were evaluated for the improved diagnosis of intestinal amoebiasis and giardiasis in 1285 patients with diarrhoea or dysentery and from asymptomatic controls.
  • (16) The clinical effects of Nifuroxasid (N), Trimetoprim sulphametoxasol (TS) and Bactisubtil (B) on bacillar dysentery and alimentary toxicoinfections in the patients treated at the Clinic from January 1984 to the end of December 1989 have been analysed.
  • (17) The role of serum antitoxic antibody in protection against the dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Shiga's bacillus) was studied in monkeys fed 10(10) virulent organisms after parenteral immunization with a formalin-inactivated Shiga toxoid preparation standardized in mice.
  • (18) A determination was made of the immunoglobulin G, M and A concentration in the blood serum of women suffering from dysentery and other acute intestinal diseases, those who sustained the disease and healthy persons (259 in all).
  • (19) MSS are decreased in lacrimal fluids of patients with dry-eye conditions, while they are periodically increased in filtered stools of patients with acute Shigella dysentery and acute cholera.
  • (20) A description is given of the simultaneous participation of the following nosologic units: colibacteriosis, responsible for 13 to 14 per cent of the total mortality rate in newborn pigs; bronchopneumonia--causing 6 to 39 per cent losses in the other age groups; and dysentery with salmonellosis--inflicting 5 to 9 per cent losses.

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