English-Spanish translations for dysentery

• disentería
  En algunos campamentos, más de 1 000 personas mueren cada semana, principalmente de disentería. In some camps, more than 1 000 people are dying every week, mainly of dysentery.
  Esto contribuirá a que se produzca un descenso en las epidemias graves, como el VIH, la tuberculosis y disentería. This will contribute to a fall in serious epidemics, such as HIV, tuberculosis and dysentery.
  En este drama, creo que cabe temer ahora que, debido a la escasez de agua potable, se produzcan también epidemias de todas clases, en particular de cólera y disentería. As well as this tragedy, I think that we must now fear, because of the lack of clean drinking water, a spate of epidemics, cholera and dysentery in particular.

Definition of dysentery

• A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon , accompanied by pus in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high volume of diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces
• Diarrhea

Related words

• dysenteric
• antidysenteric
• dysenteriform
• lamb dysentery
• bacillary dysentery