American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - n. Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces,
usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. A morbidly frequent
evacuation of the bowels, generally arising from inflammation or
irritation of the mucous membrane of the intestines, and
commonly caused by errors in regimen, as the use of food hurtful
from its quantity or quality; intestinal catarrh. - n. A
condition in which the sufferer has frequent and watery bowel
movements. - n. The watery excrement that comes from said bowel
movements. GNU Webster's 1913 - n. (Med.) A morbidly frequent
and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the
intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the
bowels; a flux. - n. frequent and watery bowel movements; can be
a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a
gastrointestinal tumor - From Ancient Greek διάρροια ("through-
flowing"), from διά (dia, "through") + ῥέω