dysentery
noun
[ ˈdɪs(ə)nt(ə)ri ]
• infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhoea with the presence of blood and mucus in the faeces.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French dissenterie, or via Latin from Greek dusenteria, from dusenteros ‘afflicted in the bowels’, from dus- ‘bad’ + entera ‘bowels’.
