Definition of Asiatic cholera

1. Noun. An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food.

Exact synonyms: Cholera, Epidemic Cholera, Indian Cholera
Generic synonyms: Infectious Disease
Derivative terms: Choleraic

Medical Definition of Asiatic cholera

1. 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)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asiatic Cholera

Asian wild ox
Asianic
Asianisation
Asianisations
Asianization
Asianizations
Asians
Asiaphiles
Asiarch
Asiarchs
Asiatic
Asiatic beetle
Asiatic black bear
Asiatic buffalo
Asiatic cholera (current term)
Asiatic cockroach
Asiatic flu
Asiatic flying squirrel
Asiatic schistosomiasis
Asiatic shrew mole
Asiatic sweetleaf
Asiatic wildcat
Asiatic wildcats
Asiaticism
Asiaticisms
Asiatics
Asif
Asilidae
Asimina

Literary usage of Asiatic cholera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"THE TREATMENT OP Asiatic cholera. DR. FRANK ABBOTT, JR., from his observations made at Swinburne Island in 1892, believes that a 2 per cent, ..."

2. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"Asiatic cholera. A number of investigators have drawn atten- GENERAL tion to the ... The great decrease in the alkalinity of the blood in Asiatic cholera, ..."

3. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"Asiatic cholera. THE Indian or Asiatic cholera, which first showed itself on ... Previous to 1829, Asiatic cholera had obtained no footing in Europe. ..."

4. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"Asiatic cholera spreads as fast aa man can travel, во that it can not spread as fast along a caravan route as along an international railroad line. ..."

5. Collections by RI Historical Society (1903)
"(BEING EXTRACTS FROM •' TTE RAMBLER," HENRY H. EVERETT, IN THE " MANCHESTER UNION," JULY 12, 1884.; The first visitation made by the Asiatic cholera to this ..."

6. The Indian Policy of the United States on the Southwestern Frontier, 1830 by Joseph Abner Hill, Philip Hanson Hiss, Hans Zinsser (1914)
"... CHAPTER XLII Asiatic cholera AND THE CHOLERA ORGANISM (Spirillum cholera: ... Comma Bat-illus) THE organism of Asiatic cholera was ..."

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