lientery

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek; compare French lientérie.

Noun

lientery (countable and uncountable, plural lienteries)

  1. (medicine) A form of diarrhea in which food passes through the body with little or no digestion.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lientery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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