lientery

[ lahy-uhn-ter-ee ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. a form of diarrhea in which the food is discharged undigested or only partly digested.

lientery

/ ˈlaɪəntərɪ; -trɪ /

noun

1. pathol the passage of undigested food in the faeces

Derived Forms

• ˌlienˈteric, adjective

Other Words From

• lien·teric adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of lientery¹

1540–50; < Medieval Latin līenteria < Greek leientería, equivalent to leî ( os ) smooth + énter ( a ) bowels + -ia -y ³

Word History and Origins

Origin of lientery¹

C16: from French, from Medieval Latin, from Greek leienteria, from leios smooth + enteron intestine

Example Sentences

Lientery is the term applied when imperfectly changed food appears in the stools.

From Project Gutenberg

Lientery, lī′en-ter-i, n. a form of diarrhœa, with frequent liquid evacuations in which the food is discharged undigested.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

After eight, ten, or twelve, Days, if the Disorder was not complicated with any other, there remained little or no Fever, unless where some Accident supervened; tho’ in Cases which terminated fatally, towards the latter End came on a Fever of a low malignant Kind, attended with black fetid Stools, Lientery, Hiccup, Stupor, and other bad Symptoms.

From Project Gutenberg

But this disease is sometimes of a dangerous nature; the intestinal absorption being so impaired, that the aliment is said to come away undiminished in quantity, and almost unchanged by the powers of digestion, and is then called lientery.

From Project Gutenberg

Venus causes sores, lientery, hysteria, sickness at the stomach, from cold and moist causes, disorders of the liver and lungs.

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