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adj. - Of or relating to an abnormal frequency of discharge of more or less fluid intestinal evacuations due to infectious, fermentative, or toxic causes or physiologic disturbances

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  • Funny how people feel they HAVE to side with one party or another… particularly in response to the kind of diarrhetic over opinionated clap here.
  • It is an extremely powerful cathartic (like a diarrhetic for your psyche).
  • The immediate danger of all the diarrhetic diseases was simple dehydration.
  • People sweating but with dry lips, licking their lips'the anti-diarrhetic does that.
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