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6 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)

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6 [pathosis] words
apoplectic
dysentery
rheumatism
apoplexy
yellow jack
ague
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dysentery

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Definition:
any miserable infectious disease of the colon that causes hematochezia
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Blackadder: [...] Come on, Baldrick -- the only thing we're going to get for free around here is dysentery.

BBC. Blackadder, season 4: General Hospital
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I met her in a hospital. She was lying on a cot, hardly able to move, her dysentery had drained her so thin.

Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club, p.326 (1989)
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It was evidently not so much his sufferings that caused him to moan (he had dysentery) as his fear and grief at being left alone.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 13 (Book Thirteen)
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