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    cholera
    (kol´әr-ә) an acute infectious enteritis endemic and epidemic in Asia, caused by Vibrio cholerae, marked by severe diarrhea and vomiting, with extreme fluid and electrolyte depletion, and by muscle cramps and prostration. Sometimes called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera ...
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    Cholera
    • (n.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
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    cholera
    an acute infection of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and characterized by extreme diarrhea with rapid and severe ... [14 related articles]
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    cholera
    cholera 1. An acute infectious disease of the small intestine and characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, muscle cramps, severe dehydration, and depletion of electrolytes. 2. A contagious disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, which produces a toxin that alters the water and electrolyte flu...
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    Cholera
    Cholera is an infection of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse, watery diarrhea and vomiting. Transmission occurs primarily by drinking water or eating food that has been contaminated by the feces of an infected person, including one with no ap...
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    cholera
    A bacterial disease causing profuse watery diarrhea, due to Vibrio cholerae. It is endemic in many parts of the East and epidemics occur elsewhere. A water-born infection, cholera was the subject of a classic epidemiological study by John Snow in 1854. Abdominal pain and diarrhea, which rapidly beco...
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    cholera
    cholera (kol'uru) or Asiatic cholera,acute infectious disease caused by strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae that have been infected by bacteriophages. The bacteria, which are found in fecal-contaminated food and water and in raw or undercooked seafood, produce a toxin that affects the intes...
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    Cholera
    Cholera is an acute, infectious, often fatal disease caused by the micro organism Vibrio cholerae. It is endemic in India and some other tropical countries and occasionally spreading to temperate climates. The symptoms of cholera are diarrhoea and the loss of water and salts in the stool.
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    cholera
    Type: Term Pronunciation: kol′er-ă Definitions: 1. An acute epidemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. A soluble toxin elaborated in the intestinal tract by the bacterium activates the adenylate cylase of the mucosa, causing active secretion of an isotonic fluid ...
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    cholera
    Disease caused by infection with various strains of the bacillus Vibrio cholerae, transmitted in contaminated water and characterized by violent diarrhoea and vomiting. It is prevalent in many tropical areas. The formerly high death rate during epidemics has been much reduced by treatments to...
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    cholera
    disease marked by symptoms of thirst, cramps, diarrhea, and death. Brought about by drinking water tainted with human waste. Beginning in the 1830s several epidemics of cholera hit London before sanitary conditions improved in the second half of the century.
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    cholera
    An infectious bacterial disease, often picked up from infected water. It causes severe vomiting and diarrhoea, and if not treated with modern medicines has a high death rate.
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    Cholera
    An acute, infectious disease characterized by profuse diarrhea, vomiting, and cramps. Cholera is spread by feces-contaminated water and food. Major epidemics struck the United States in the years 1832, 1849, and 1866. .
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