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Major epidemiological subject
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cholera
Alternative clues for the word cholera
- Case for a veterinarian
- An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food
- Clean drinking water helps prevent it
- Gabriel García Márquez novel "Love in the Time of ___"
- Orally, one catches disease
- Digestive tract malady
- Disease? Pass period around hospital
- Disease of domestic animals
Word definitions for cholera in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food [syn: Asiatic cholera , Indian cholera , epidemic cholera ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the Valais region of Switzerland, a cholera is a type of savoury dish involving potatoes, vegetables and fruits baked with cheese in a pastry similar to a tart . The unusual name is linked to the history of the dish. During an epidemic of the disease ...
Usage examples of cholera.
I told her about burnet, with which they treated cholera and the plague, and about saxifrage, or breakstone, which actually does break up kidney stones and gallstones.
Influenza, cholera, and at last maculated fever, the progressive enfeeblement of economic life and new developments of human relationship, prevented that Conference from ever meeting.
The acute form is frequently a complication, or sequel of scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid fever, erysipelas or measles, and is frequently developed by intemperance.
Foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, Rift Valley fever, vesicular stomatitis, vesicular exanthema, hog cholera, African swine fever, fowl plague, Newcastle disease, and equine encephalomyelitis.
The first cholera epidemic found her in the throes not only of famine but of civil disorder, controlled and suppressed by her highly mechanized army and by the still very powerful habits of orderliness and subordination in her people.
Metchnikoff came out of the fog of his theory of phagocytes for a moment, and tried to satisfy them by sowing chicken cholera bacilli among the meadow mice which were eating up the crops.
Already, the younger rememberer had discovered a notation in one of the Earth encyclopedias obtained from human merchantsa reference to a disease called cholera that spread easily from human to human when they lived in close quarters.
The people would seem so free of diseases as to be miraculously healthy: no trachoma or leprosy, plague or cholera, those common scourges of primitive times.
It was later discovered that Japanese scientists subjected Chinese prisoners of war to horrifying experiments with such lethal bioagents as anthrax, cholera, typhoid, and plague.
Logwood is a mild astringent, well adapted to remedy the relaxed condition of the bowels after cholera infantum.
The third child lived twenty days, the other two died of cholera infantum at the sixth month, attributable to the bottle-feeding.
Cholera and bubonic plague followed, and then, five years and more later, when the worst seemed to have passed, came the culminating attack by maculated fever.
That was the standard description for anything from amebic dysentery to cholera.
Apologia, and the touching allusion in it to the devotedness of the Catholic clergy to the poor in seasons of pestilence reminds me that when the cholera raged so dreadfully at Bilston, and the two priests of the town were no longer equal to the number of cases to which they were hurried day and night, I asked you to lend me two fathers to supply the place of other priests whom I wished to send as a further aid.
Upon his recovery from cholera he married a Mendana and proceeded to divest her family of interior Boca Grande.