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Indian sickness (medicine)


Indian sickness -->
epidemic gangrenous proctitis


A generally fatal disease affecting chiefly children in the tropics, characterised by gangrenous ulceration of the rectum and anus, accompanied by frequent watery stools and tenesmus.

Synonym: bicho, caribi, Indian sickness.