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Definition of Asiatic cholera
| a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice-water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. |
See also: Cholera
Related Words
cholera, epidemic cholera, Indian cholera, infectious disease
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