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Aacute gastro-intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It has a short incubation period of one to five days and causes watery diarrhoea leading to severe dehydration and death if treatment is not provided rapidly. Vomiting occurs in most cases. However, less than 10 percent of the infected suffer moderate or severe dehydration ...
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An acute, infectious disease characterized by profuse diarrhea, vomiting, and cramps. Cholera is spread by feces-contaminated water and food.
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• (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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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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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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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...
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<gastroenterology, microbiology> A form of infectious gastroenteritis (intestinal infection) that results in frequent watery stools, cramping abdominal pain and eventual collapse (from dehydration). ... Epidemic infections are seasonal in most third world countries, particularly Africa. ... (15 Jan 1998) ...
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(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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An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission to humans occurs through
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An acute, often fatal, infectious disease with profuse diarrhoea, vomiting and cramps. Cholera spreads by consuming water or food contaminated by faeces, especially in overcrowded conditions. Rice water stools was felt to be a distinguishing feature in the past
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(Learning Modules / Geography / Geography of health) A water-borne disease caused by a bacterium which leads to severe and often fatal diarrhoea.
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Chol'er·a noun [ Latin , a bilious disease. See
Choler .]
(Medicine) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called
Asiatic cholera .
Asiatic cholera ,
a malignant and rapidly fatal ...
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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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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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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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a diseases of the nervous system, characterised by jerky movements chiefly of the face and extremities. Synonym: Saint Vitus' Dance.
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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 fluxes toward secretion in the upper intestinal tract...
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An acute infectious disease of the small intestine, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, muscle cramps, severe dehydration, and depletion of electrolytes.
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(cholera vaccine) Cholera is an infectious disease. You can have a vaccination to protect you against cholera if you are having chemotherapy.
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a bacterial infection of the small intestine that causes severe watery diarrhoea, dehydration, and possibly death
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Asiatic cholera noun an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food
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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 prevent dehydration and loss of body ...
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a disease marked by severe vomiting and dysentery that is often fatal; Water
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Also calledan acute, infectious disease, endemic in India and China and occasionally epidemic elsewhere, characterized by profuse diarrhea, vomiting, cramps, etc. · any of several diseases of domesticated animals that are characterized by depression, sleepiness, lack of appetite, and diarrhea. Cf. fowl cholera, hog cholera.
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