Tuesday, 30 October 2012

الدوسنتاريا dysentery


Etymology of Arabic words: the word الدوسنتاريا
(dousenteria) means dysentery (Wikipedia:Dysentery (formerly known as flux or the bloody flux) is an inflammatory disorder of the intestine, especially of the colon, that results in severe diarrhea) and derives from the ancient greek word δυσεντερία (disenteria) which is composed from the prefix δυσ- (dis) meaning bad/evil with negative sense, and the word έντερο (entero) meaning
intestine/gut. In Turkish is dizanteri.





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