Relating to dysentery; affected by or characteristic of dysentery.
An alternative adjective form of dysentery, using the suffix -ical instead of -ic. Both forms exist in medical English, with -ical sometimes preferred in more formal or older medical texts, though -ical is less common in modern usage.
The existence of both 'dysenteric' and 'dysenterical' shows how English medical language once had more variation before standardizing on shorter forms. Older medical texts are full of these -ical variants that mostly disappeared.
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