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A sentry. [Obs.] Milton.

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.

t the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.

Good against dysentery. -- n.

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.

The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers. Carrion crow. See under Carrion. -- Crow blackbird (Zoöl.), an American bird (Quiscalus quiscula); -- called also purple grackle. -- Crow pheasant (Zoöl.), an Indian cuckoo; the common coucal. It is believed by the natives to give omens. See Coucal. -- Crow shrike…

Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient. "Dysenteric symptoms." Copland.

The flux; dysentery. [Obs.] Udall. Flix weed (Bot.), the Sisymbrium Sophia, a kind of hedge mustard, formerly used as a remedy for dysentery.

ls or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.

Within the mesentery; as, the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus.

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon. -- Mes`o*col"ic, a.

The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum. -- Mes`o*rec"tal, a.

Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus.

Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.