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diarrhœa|daɪəˈriːə|
Also 4–5 diaria, 6– diarrhea.
[a. L. diarrhœa, a. Gr. διάρροια a flowing through, diarrhœa, f. διαρρέ-ειν to flow through.]
1. A disorder consisting in the too frequent evacuation of too fluid fæces, sometimes attended with griping pains.
In the 17th c. usually with the, in 18th with a, now (in literary and educated use) without article.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. li. (1495) 265 Diaria is a symple flyxe of the wombe. 1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1545) H viij b, The sayde fluxe is named diarrhea. 1564Sir W. Cecil in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. II. 291 The Quenes Majesty fell perillosly sick on Saturday last, the accident cam to that which they call diarrhœa. 1569R. Androse tr. Alexis' Secr. iv. i. 12 To remedie the diseases called Dissinteria and Diarrhea. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Furies, The diarrhœa and the burning-fever In Sommer-season doo their fell endeavour. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1104 They stay also the Dyarrhœa..kill and drive out all Belly-worms. c1723Pope Let. to Gay (1735) I. 323 To wait for the next cold Day to throw her into a Diarrhœa. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 269 A cholera Morbus, or incurable Diarrhœas. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 60 These medicines caused diarrhœa. 1811A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) 240 Celebrated in Ireland as a remedy in diarrhœa. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 525 The term diarrhœa is used to denote morbid frequency of intestinal dejections which are, also, liquid or morbidly soft, and often otherwise altered in character.
attrib.1890B. A. Whitelegge Hygiene & Public Health xii, The diarrhœa death-rate..Density of buildings upon an area increases the tendency to diarrhœa mortality.
2. transf. An excessive flow (of words, etc.).
1698F. B. Modest Censure 15 This sort of Medicaments hath cured his Pen of the Diarrhæa. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. III (1845) II. ii. 47 He..was troubled with a diarrhœa of words. 1883Contemp. Rev. Dec. 937 We allude..to the diarrhœa of emendations. |