Translation guide
A serious intestinal infection causing severe diarrhea with blood or mucus. In Japanese, the general term is 赤痢 (sekiri), but medical contexts may use more specific terms.
The common term for dysentery as an illness characterized by bloody diarrhea.
The standard, everyday word for dysentery. Literally 'red diarrhea', referring to the bloody stools.
彼は赤痢にかかった。
He contracted dysentery.
赤痢が流行している。
Dysentery is going around.
The specific bacterial form caused by Shigella.
Medical term for bacillary dysentery. Used in clinical or public health contexts.
細菌性赤痢は抗生物質で治療される。
Bacillary dysentery is treated with antibiotics.
The form caused by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
Medical term for amebic dysentery. Often seen in travel medicine or tropical disease contexts.
海外旅行中にアメーバ赤痢に感染した。
I contracted amebic dysentery while traveling abroad.
In everyday Japanese, 赤痢 (sekiri) is the most common and understood term for dysentery. Medical professionals may distinguish between 細菌性赤痢 and アメーバ赤痢, but for general purposes, 赤痢 is sufficient.