cholera

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cholera Asiatic cholera chicken cholera cholera infantum cholera morbus cholera vibrio fowl cholera hog cholera pancreatic cholera Verner-Morrison syndrome

Main Entry: chol·era
Pronunciation: käl--r
Function: noun
: any of several diseases of humans and domestic animals usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms: as a : an acute diarrheal disease caused by an enterotoxin produced by various strains of a comma-shaped gram-negative bacterium of the genus Vibrio (V. cholerae synonym V. comma) when it is present in large numbers in the proximal part of the human small intestine -- see ASIATIC CHOLERA b : FOWL CHOLERA c : HOG CHOLERA
- chol·e·ra·ic /käl--r-ik/ adjective