CHOLERA
\kˈɒləɹə], \kˈɒləɹə], \k_ˈɒ_l_ə_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of CHOLERA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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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.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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An epidemic disease, with inflammation of small intestine, vomiting, diarrhea and great prostration.
By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
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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.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Bilious vomiting and purging-the milder form of the disease is called cholera-morbus; the malignant form is called Asiatic cholera.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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