ASIATIC CHOLERA
\ˌe͡ɪʃɪˈatɪk kˈɒləɹə], \ˌeɪʃɪˈatɪk kˈɒləɹə], \ˌeɪ_ʃ_ɪ__ˈa_t_ɪ_k k_ˈɒ_l_ə_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of ASIATIC CHOLERA
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An acute infectious disease, indigenous to India, China, or eastern Asia, whence it is sometimes conveyed to other places in the form of destructive epidemics, due to the ingestion of the specific microorganism Spirillum cholerae asiaticae, or comma bacillus. The disease is characterized by vomiting and purging, the discharges resembling rice water; by painful cramps; and by the early occurrence of collapse with suppression of urine and a peculiar coldness of the breath.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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