Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bacillary_dysentery

1 sense of bacillary dysentery

Sense 1
shigellosis, bacillary dysentery -- (an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains)
       => dysentery -- (an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea)