Part 3556

<blockquote>Sin is a cause of <b>dycrasies</b> and distempers. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dysenteric, Dysenterical</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw><hw>Dys`en*ter"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Dys`en*ter"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dysentericus</ets>, Gr. <?/; cf. F. <ets>dysent\'82rigue</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; <as>as, a <ex>dysenteric</ex> patient</as>.</def> "<i>Dysenteric</i> symptoms."

<i>Copland.</i>

<h1>Dysentery</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw>Dys"en*ter*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dysenteria</ets>, Gr. <?/; <?/ ill, bad + <?/, pl. <?/, intestines, fr. <?/ within, fr. <?/ in, akin to E. <ets>in</ets>: cf. F. <ets>dysenterie</ets>. See <er>Dys</er>, and <er>In</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.</def>

<note>&hand; When acute, <i>dysentery</i> is usually accompanied with high fevers. It occurs epidemically, and is believed to be communicable through the medium of the alvine discharges.</note>

<h1>Dysgenesic</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw>Dys`ge*nes"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not procreating or breeding freely; <as>as, one race may be <ex>dysgenesic</ex> with respect to another</as>.</def>

<i>Darwin.</i>

<h1>Dysgenesis</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw>Dys*gen"e*sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dys-</ets> + <ets>genesis</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.</def>

<h1>Dyslogistic</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw>Dys`lo*gis"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ ill, bad, + <?/ discourse, fr. <?/ to speak.]</ety> <def>Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to <i>eulogistic</i>.</def>

<blockquote>There is no course of conduct for which <b>dyslogistic</b> or eulogistic epithets may be found. <i>J. F. Stephen.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The paternity of <b>dyslogistic</b> -- no bantling, but now almost a centenarian -- is adjudged to that genius of common sense, Jeremy Bentham. <i>Fitzed. Hall.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dysluite</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw>Dys"lu*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ ill, hard + <?/ to loose, dissolve.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.</def>

<h1>Dyslysin</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw>Dys"ly*sin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ ill, hard + <?/ a loosing.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.</def>

<h1>Dysmenorrhea</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw>Dys*men`or*rhe"a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ ill, hard + <?/ month + <?/ to flow.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Difficult and painful menstruation.</def>

<h1>Dysnomy</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw>Dys"no*my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/; <?/ ill, bad + <?/ law.]</ety> <def>Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.</def>

<i>Cockeram.</i>

<h1>Dysodile</h1> <Xpage=464>

<hw>Dys"o*dile</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ ill smell, from <?/ ill-smelling; <?/ ill, bad + <?/ to smell.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.</def>

<h1>Dyspepsia, Dyspepsy</h1> <Xpage=464>