单词 | dysentery |
释义 | dysenteryn. a. A disease characterized by inflammation of the mucous membrane and glands of the large intestine, accompanied with griping pains, and mucous and bloody evacuations. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > dysentery menisonc1250 flux1377 dysentery1382 bloody fluxa1398 fluxion1563 cackerel1659 apricot sickness1945 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Acts xxviii. 8 The fadir of Puplius..trauelid with feueres and dissenterie or flix. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 259 That dyssentyrye of comon usage The reed flyx ys clepyd in oure langwage. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xlviiv The disentery, or exulceracion of the gutts. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxviii. ix. 318 For the dysenterie or bloudie flix. 1649 Briefe Relation Some Affaires & Trans. No. 6. 51 Other necessities increased the discentery in our Leaguer. 1708 J. Swift Predict. for 1708 6 On the 20th, the Cardinal Portocarero will dye of a Dissentery. 1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Province Massachusets-Bay, 1691–1750 iv. 419 Many of our men had..fallen into dysenteries. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xli. 544 The dysentery swept away one-third of their army. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 69 Dysentery also is decidedly produced by impure water. b. A disease of bees. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of insects > [noun] > disorders of bees hive-evil1608 dysentery1816 foulbrood1853 Nosema1900 microsporidiosis1911 sacbrood1913 Varroa1974 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) I. iv. 90. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 54 The chief diseases of bees..are dysentery or looseness, torpor, falling in flight from vertigo or giddiness, and vermin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1382 |
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