diarrhoea: [16] Diarrhoea means literally ‘through-flow’ (and hence semantically is a parallel formation to diabetes). It comes via late Latin diarrhoea from Greek diárrhoia, a term coined by the physician Hippocrates for ‘abnormally frequent defecation’. It was formed from the prefix dia- ‘through’ and rhein ‘flow’ (a relative of English rheumatism and stream).
Of other -rrhoea formations (or -rrhea, as it is generally spelled in American English), pyorrhoea ‘inflammation of the tooth sockets’ was coined in the early 19th century, and logorrhoea at around the turn of the 20th, originally as a clinical term in psychology (although subsequently hijacked as a facetious synonym for ‘talkativeness’). => rheumatism, stream
diarrhoea
variant spelling of diarrhea (q.v.); see also oe.
雙語例句
1. Symptoms include diarrhoea and vomiting.
癥狀有腹瀉和嘔吐。
來自《權威詞典》
2. They can also relieve diarrhoea.
它們還可以治瀉肚.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Three days later his diarrhoea was checked.
三天以后他的痢疾止住了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. Diarrhoea can make you feel weak, as well as putting you off your food.
腹瀉會讓人感到乏力，而且沒有胃口。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Nausea, diarrhoea, and vomiting may accompany migraine.