dysentery
Findings
No curated finding names dysentery yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Acute inflammation of the intestine associated with infectious diarrhea of various etiologies, generally acquired by eating contaminated food containing toxins, biological derived from bacteria or other microorganisms. Dysentery is characterized initially by watery feces then by bloody mucoid stools. It is often associated with abdominal pain; fever; and dehydration.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0001517), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
1 feature
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, hp/releases/2026-09-01.
- Bloody diarrheaMondoHP:0025085
Where it sits
- Narrower terms (3)
Other names
9 names
Resolves to: dysentery
- Also called
- diarrheal disease, infectiousdysenteric diarrheadysenteric diarrhoeainfectious diarrheainfectious diarrheal diseaseinfectious diarrheal diseasesinfectious diarrhoeainfective diarrheainfective diarrhoea