dysenterial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] and tells us, in the account he gives, of the great virtues of the ſeeds being ſteep'd in wine, for thoſe that are afflicted with coughs, and for nephritic and dyſenterial diſeaſes in women."
- "By the natives of Mosambique, and also by those at a remote distance, this root is considered almost a specific for every disorder of long standing; but more especially for dysenterial and venereal disorders."
- "Baermann and Eckersdorff⁸ studied a series of cases of dysenterial appearance occurring in a Sumatra hospital in which only hemolytic streptococci were to be found in the stools."
Etymology
From dysentery + -al.
Usage
Inflected Forms
dysenterials (plural)