Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a form of diarrhea in which, from excessive peristalsis, the aliments are discharged undigested, and with little alteration in either color or substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change.
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- noun medicine A form of
diarrhea in which food passes through the body with little or nodigestion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There were many cases of lientery and of dysentery; but these were not attended with much pain.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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The diseases which attacked them were in the form of dysenteries, tenesmus, lientery, and fluxes; but, in some cases, there were dropsies, with or without these complaints.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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When persons having large spleens are seized with dysentery, and if the dysentery pass into a chronic state, either dropsy or lientery supervenes, and they die.
Aphorisms 2007
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It is a bad thing to purge upward in winter persons whose bowels are in a state of lientery.
Aphorisms 2007
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In cases of chronic lientery, acid eructations supervening when there were none previously, is a good symptom.
Aphorisms 2007
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But this disease is sometimes of a dangerous nature; the intestinal absorption being so impaired, that the aliment is said to come away undiminished in quantity, and almost unchanged by the powers of digestion, and is then called lientery.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
sionnach commented on the word lientery
diarrhea consisting of undigested or semidigested food.
January 4, 2008
madmouth commented on the word lientery
chunk-style
June 21, 2009