bacillary dysentery

1. 1.

   an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains

   Synonymsshigellosis

   Broaderdysentery

Questions about bacillary dysentery

What does bacillary dysentery mean?

bacillary dysentery means "an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains".

What is another word for bacillary dysentery?

Close synonyms include shigellosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bacillary dysentery a common word?

bacillary dysentery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.