Unscramble

s 1 h 4 i 1 g 2 e 1 l 1 l 1 o 1 s 1 i 1 s 1

11 letters · 15 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains

originFrom translingual Shigella + -osis; the former is from the name of Kiyoshi Shiga.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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