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punatauti — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • amoebiasis noun Disease associated with the presence of amoebas.
  • dysentery noun A serious intestinal infection causing severe diarrhoea, often with blood, along with fever and abdominal pain.

Senses

punatauti is used for these senses in English:

  • amoebiasis (medicine) An infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica; amoebic dysentery.
  • dysentery (pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.

amoebiasis — full definition

  1. noun Disease associated with the presence of amoebas.
  2. noun Any of various such diseases; most especially
  3. noun Any of various such diseases; most especially:
  4. noun An infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica; amoebic dysentery.

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