diarrhoea
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
diarrhoea /ˌdʌɪəˈrɪə/ (US diarrhea)
▶noun a condition in which faeces are discharged from the bowels frequently and in a liquid form.
– derivatives
diarrhoeal adjective,
diarrhoeic adjective.
diarrhoeal adjective,
diarrhoeic adjective.
– origin ME: via late L. from Gk diarrhoia, from diarrhein ‘flow through’.
'diarrhoea' also found in these Oxford entries:
antidiarrhoeal
- choler
- cholera
- cryptosporidiosis
- dysentery
- enteritis
- ergotism
- flux
- food poisoning
- gastro-enteritis
- gippy tummy
- irritable bowel syndrome
- loperamide
- Montezuma's revenge
- paregoric
- pellagra
- -rrhoea
- run
- scour
- shit
- squit
- squitters
- tormentil
- trot
