gastrointestinal disorder

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   illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food

   Synonymsfood poisoning

   Broaderillness

   Narrowerbotulismmushroom poisoningptomainesalmonellosis

Questions about gastrointestinal disorder

What does gastrointestinal disorder mean?

gastrointestinal disorder means "illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food".

What is another word for gastrointestinal disorder?

Close synonyms include food poisoning. 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 gastrointestinal disorder a common word?

gastrointestinal disorder 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.