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an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food

an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food

An acute diarrheal disease endemic in India and Southeast Asia whose causative agent is VIBRIO CHOLERAE. This condition can lead to severe dehydration in a matter of hours unless quickly treated.

A disease accompanied by violent vomiting; cholera infantum, a disease of infants, accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea; cholera morbus, an acute disease characterized by violent vomiting, cramps, etc.

An acute epidemic infectious disease caused by a specific germ, Spirillum cholerae asiaticae; it is marked clinically by a profuse watery diarrhea, muscular cramps, vomiting, and collapse. It is called also Asiatic or Indian cholera, epidemic c., malignant c., algid c., asphyctic c., and pestilential c.

An epidemic disease, with inflammation of small intestine, vomiting, diarrhea and great prostration.

An acute, infectious disease caused by bacilli. Asiatic cholera.

A bilious disease characterized by vomiting and purging, with great pain and debility, often called English cholera. Cholera morbus, an epidemic disease, of Asiatic origin, of a totally different nature, though characterized by most of its symptoms in a very aggravated form. Cholera osphyxia, an aggravated form of cholera morbus, being accompanied with more frequent watery discharges, retchings, severe spasms, and usually asphyxia, collapse, and speedy death.

Bilious vomiting and purging-the milder form of the disease is called cholera-morbus; the malignant form is called Asiatic cholera.

According to others, 'intestines,' or 'the gutter of a house to carry off the rain.' The higher degrees have been called Centroganglii’tis, Myeloganglii’tis, and Hologanglii'tis. A disease characterized by anxiety, gripings, spasms in the legs and arms, and by vomiting and purging (generally bilious:) vomiting and purging are, indeed, the essential symptoms. The disease is most common in hot climates,-and in temperat climates, during summer. Mort de Chien, is frightful in the rapidity of its progress, the patient sometimes dying in a few hours from the first onset. In temperate climates, common cholera is not usually a disease of much consequence, It requires that the stomach and bowels should be cleared, and afterwards the irritation be allayed by full doses of opium. In malignant cholera, large doses of calomel, with opiates, form the great reliance of many practitioners. In the worst forms, however, it runs its course, unmodified by treatment.

A disease characterized by vomiting, purging, spasms, and griping pains.

Any condition characterized by repeated simultaneous purging and vomiting, with painful spasms of the stomach and bowels and occasional cramps of the external muscles. As commonly used, the term means Asiatic cholera.

n. A bilious disease, exhibited in violent purgings and vomitings, griping pain, and spasmodic action of the limbs– classified as British cholera, diarrhea and cholera morbus.