diarrhoea
noun (British English)(North American English diarrhea)
(also informal the runs)
[uncountable]an illness in which waste matter is emptied from the bowels much more frequently than normal, and in liquid form Topics Illnessc1腹泻 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- severe
- mild
- acute
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- experience
- have
- suffer from
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Word Originlate Middle English: via late Latin from Greek diarrhoia, from diarrhein ‘flow through’, from dia ‘through’ + rhein ‘to flow’.