#amebiasis
- Amoebiasis — An infectious parasitic disease, endemic especially in tropical regions, caused by the protozoan Entamoeba histolytica; it manifests clinically through severe intestinal ulcerations, muco-sanguinous diarrhea (amoebic dysentery), and poses a structural risk of generating secondary abscesses in the liver, lungs, or brain through systemic migration.