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Summer complaint
| (Med.) | a popular term for any diarrheal disorder occurring in summer, especially when produced by heat and indigestion. |
See also: Summer summer complaint
summer complaint(s)obsolete A euphemism for any severe gastrointestinal infection, especially food poisoning or cholera, typically contracted by children in the summertime. Mary has a bit of the summer complaint, so she has taken to bed for the rest of the week. Before personal hygiene and food safety practices became commonplace, children became ill and died from what adults rather flippantly called summer complaints.See also: summersummer complaint n. diarrhea, especially that experienced in the summer. I’ve got a touch of the summer complaint. See also: complaint, summer |