Associations to the word «Shigellosis»

Wiktionary

SHIGELLOSIS, noun. (medicine) A form of dysentery caused by intestinal infection with Shigella bacteria

Dictionary definition

SHIGELLOSIS, noun. An acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats