Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - cholera
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Cholera
cholera
noun Etymology: Latin Date: 1601 any of several diseases of humans and domestic animals usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms; especially an acute diarrheal disease caused by an enterotoxin produced by a comma-shaped gram-negative bacillus (Vibrio ~e syn. V. comma) when it is present in large numbers in the proximal part of the human small intestine
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n. Med. an infectious and often fatal disease of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, resulting in severe vomiting and diarrhoea. Phrases and idioms chicken (or fowl) cholera an infectious disease of fowls. Derivatives choleraic adj. Etymology: ME f. L f. Gk kholera: see CHOLER CHOLERIC adj. irascible, angry. Derivatives cholerically adv. Etymology: ME f. OF cholerique f. L cholericus f. Gk kholerikos: see CHOLER ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. мед. холера Asiatic cholera —- (азиатская) холера cholera nostras, summer cholera —- летний понос, холерина cholera germ —- холерный вибрион cholera vaccine —- противохолерная вакцина ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun холера Asiatic cholera, malignant cholera - азиатская холера summer cholera - летний понос, холерина ...Англо-русский словарь
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Cholera is a serious disease that often kills people. It is caused by drinking infected water or by eating infected food. ...a cholera epidemic. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n a serious disease of the stomach and bowels that is caused by bad water or infected food ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 14c., from L. cholera, from Gk. kholera "illness caused by choler," from khole "gall, bile," the supposed cause of temper. Revived 1601 for severe digestive disorder (rarely fatal to adults); 1819 (especially as cholera morbus), for a highly lethal disease endemic in India, periodically breaking out in global epidemics. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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