Diarrhoea
1DIARRHOEA — Cyrenaicae reg. portus, Ptol. Zanara Marmolio …
2diarrhoea — variant spelling of DIARRHEA (Cf. diarrhea) (q.v.); see also OE (Cf. oe) …
3diarrhoea — is spelt in this way in BrE and diarrhea in AmE …
4diarrhoea — (US diarrhea) ► NOUN ▪ a condition in which faeces are discharged from the bowels frequently and in a liquid form. DERIVATIVES diarrhoeal adjective diarrhoeic adjective. ORIGIN Greek diarrhoia, from diarrhein «flow through» …
5diarrhoea — n. 1) to come down with; have diarrhoea 2) severe diarrhoea 3) an attack of diarrhoea * * * [ˌdaɪə rɪə] have diarrhoea an attack of diarrhoea severe diarrhoea to come down with …
6Diarrhoea — Diarrhea Di ar*rhe a, Diarrhoea Di ar*rh[oe] a, (d[imac] ar*r[=e] [.a]), n. [L. diarrhoea, Gr. dia rroia, fr. dia rrei^n to flow through; dia + rei^n to flow; akin to E. stream. See {Stream}.] (Med.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of… …
7diarrhoea — [16] Diarrhoea means literally ‘through flow’ (and hence semantically is a parallel formation to diabetes). It comes via late Latin diarrhoea from Greek diárrhoia, a term coined by the physician Hippocrates for ‘abnormally frequent defecation’.… …
8diarrhoea — [16] Diarrhoea means literally ‘through flow’ (and hence semantically is a parallel formation to diabetes). It comes via late Latin diarrhoea from Greek diárrhoia, a term coined by the physician Hippocrates for ‘abnormally frequent defecation’.… …
9diarrhoea — n. frequent bowel evacuation or the passage of abnormally soft or liquid faeces. It may be caused by intestinal infections, other forms of intestinal inflammation (such as colitis or Crohn s disease), malabsorption, anxiety, and the irritable… …
10diarrhoea — (AmE diarrhea) noun ADJECTIVE ▪ severe ▪ mild ▪ acute, chronic ▪ intermittent, persistent …
