Definition of "lientery" []

• A form of diarrhea in which food passes through the body with little or no digestion. (noun)

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• "There were many cases of lientery and of dysentery; but these were not attended with much pain."
• "The diseases which attacked them were in the form of dysenteries, tenesmus, lientery, and fluxes; but, in some cases, there were dropsies, with or without these complaints."
• "When persons having large spleens are seized with dysentery, and if the dysentery pass into a chronic state, either dropsy or lientery supervenes, and they die."