| choleraic diarrhoea | Diarrhoea of infants in hot weather, usually an acute gastroenteritis due to the presence of Shigella or Salmonella. Synonym: choleraic diarrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| chronic bacillary diarrhoea | Prolonged diarrhoea occurring in association with bacterial infection, usually occurring in patients with gastrointestinal stasis, allowing bacterial proliferation in the intestine with secondary malabsorption. Occurs in blind-loop syndrome after intestinal surgery, following vagotomy, and occasionally in scleroderma or diabetes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cochin China diarrhoea | An obsolete term for tropical sprue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colliquative diarrhoea | Diarrhoea associated with excessive discharge of fluid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| white diarrhoea | An infectious disease of chicks and other young birds caused by the bacterium Salmonella pullorum, which is carried in the ovaries of adult hens and appears in the eggs; in incubator-hatched birds, the disease usually involves the lungs and air sacs, but often spreads in flocks of young birds as an alimentary tract infection manifested by severe diarrhoea followed by septicaemia and death. Synonym: diarrhoea alba, white diarrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mucous diarrhoea | Diarrhoea with the presence of considerable mucus in the stools. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine epidemic diarrhoea | A disease of pigs caused by the porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus and characterised by acute diarrhoea, with high mortality in piglets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus | A coronavirus causing porcine epidemic diarrhoea in pigs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| serous diarrhoea | Diarrhoea characterised by watery stools. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal calf diarrhoea virus | One of two virus's causing neonatal calf diarrhoea; a reovirus-like virus is associated with disease in newborn calves, and a coronavirus is associated with disease in calves over 5 days of age. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nocturnal diarrhoea | Diarrhoea that occurs chiefly at night, usually in association with diabetic autonomic neuropathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| summer diarrhoea | Diarrhoea of infants in hot weather, usually an acute gastroenteritis due to the presence of Shigella or Salmonella. Synonym: choleraic diarrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| deficiency dermatitis and diarrhoea, zinc | A genetic disease called acrodermatitis enteropathica is characterised by the simultaneous occurrence of skin inflammation (dermatitis) and diarrhoea. The skin on the cheeks, elbows and knees and tissue about the mouth and anus are inflammed. There is also balding of the scalp, eyebrows and lashes, delayed wound healing and recurrent bacterial and fungal infections due to immune deficiency. The key laboratory finding is an abnormally low blood zinc level reflecting impaired zinc uptake. Oral treatment with zinc is curative. (12 Dec 1998) |
| diarrhoea | <gastroenterology, symptom> The abnormal frequency and liquidity of faecal discharges. Origin: Gr. Rhein = to flow (18 Nov 1997) |
| diarrhoea alba | An infectious disease of chicks and other young birds caused by the bacterium Salmonella pullorum, which is carried in the ovaries of adult hens and appears in the eggs; in incubator-hatched birds, the disease usually involves the lungs and air sacs, but often spreads in flocks of young birds as an alimentary tract infection manifested by severe diarrhoea followed by septicaemia and death. Synonym: diarrhoea alba, white diarrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |