Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria of the family
Enterobacteriaceae ; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals; those of the genus Erwinia are found in plants.
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- noun biology
Gram-negative eubacteria that inhabitintestines .
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- noun rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals
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Examples
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One of my enterics is a Field Ambulance boy, with a temp. of 105, and he only "went sick" yesterday.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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_ -- We unloaded at 6 P.M. at B., and are to start off again at 4.15 A.M.; business is brisk just now; this last lot only had mostly minor ailments, besides the enterics and the woundeds.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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We shall probably not unload to-night, and I am to be called at 2 A.M. The infectious ward is full with British enterics, dips., and measles, and Indian mumpies.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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Some of the enterics are very bad: train journeys are not ideal treatment for enteric hæmorrhage, but it has to be done.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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A butcher was killed and a boy injured, and as the British Clearing Hospital was in the church and the French Hospital next door they were all cleared out into our train; many very bad cases, fractured spine, a nearly dying lung case, a boy with wound in lung and liver, three pneumonias, some bad enterics (though the worst have not been moved).
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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There are rows of enterics on stretchers in khaki in this shed, waiting for motor ambulances to take them to Versailles No. -- G.H., being nursed here meanwhile.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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One of the enterics, a Skye man, thinks I'm his mother; told me to-night there was a German spy in his carriage, and that he had "50 dead Jocks to bury -- and it wasn't the buryin 'he didn't like but the feeling of it."
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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_ -- We loaded up this morning with a not very bad lot (mine all sitters except some enterics, a measles, and a diphtheria), and are on our way down again.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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P.M. It is a mercy we got our bad cases off at Boulogne -- pneumonias, enterics, two s. f.'s, and some badly wounded, including the officer dressed in bandages all over.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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Only filled up my half of the train, both wounded and sick, including some very bad enterics.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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