1. An acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhoea and fever and abdominal pains
   - bacillary dysentery

Type of: dysentery

Encyclopedia: Shigellosis

• shoal
• shoaly
• shoat
• shock
• shock absorber
• shock therapy
• shock treatment
• shock troops
• shock wave
• shock-absorbent
• shock-headed
• shockable
• shocked
• shocker
• shocking
• shocking pink
• shockingly
• Shockley
• shockproof
• shod
• shodden
• reef knot
• reef squirrelfish
• reef whitetip shark
• reefer