Definition of lientery in English:

noun

• A form of diarrhoea.

  Example sentences

  • ‘There were many cases of lientery and of dysentery; but these were not attended with much pain.’
  • ‘I attended, some time ago, a lady suffering from lientery, for whom I ineffectually prescribed a low dilution of China.’
  • ‘My own view of the case is that the lientery was due to the presence of the tumor in the neighbourhood of the stomach.’
  • ‘We have heard of a severe lientery being brought on by eating a little ice-cream, at a time when a considerable degree of indigestion already prevailed.’
  • ‘Enteritis and colitis may result from lientery.’

  Synonyms

  loose motions, looseness of the bowels

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