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noun
Archaic[mass noun] A form of diarrhoea.
- ‘Enteritis and colitis may result from lientery.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘My own view of the case is that the lientery was due to the presence of the tumor in the neighbourhood of the stomach.’
loose motions, looseness of the bowelsView synonyms
Origin
Late Middle English: via French lientérie or Latin lienteria from Greek leienteria, from leios smooth + entera bowels: see -ery.
Pronunciation:
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