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cholera

/kol-er-uh/US // ˈkɒl ər ə //UK // (ˈkɒlərə) //

霍乱,痧,罗疹

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called Asiatic cholera .Pathology. an acute, infectious disease, endemic in India and China and occasionally epidemic elsewhere, characterized by profuse diarrhea, vomiting, cramps, etc.
    • : Veterinary Pathology. any of several diseases of domesticated animals that are characterized by depression, sleepiness, lack of appetite, and diarrhea.Compare fowl cholera, hog cholera.

Examples

  • Researchers across the country and around the world have tested wastewater to study everything from polio to cholera and, more recently, opioids and heroin.

  • Scientists tested an H1N1 influenza vaccine by exposing people to the flu, and did the same with a cholera vaccine and the bacterium that causes it.

  • His academic research partner, the medical historian Howard Markel, had written a book about the mistreatment of Jewish immigrants in New York during cholera and typhoid outbreaks in 1892.

  • Something very similar happened in 1849 when America was swept by cholera.

  • In downtown Philadelphia, as Charles Rosenberg recalls in The Cholera Years, “a free couple of color” were found dead of cholera in a room measuring just four and a half by seven foot.

  • This method works for TB, for cholera, for rabid animals—for just about everything.

  • Cholera and typhoid fever are transmitted when I ingest contaminated food or drink.

  • When multiple cases of watery diarrhea spread through one village, doctors feared it was cholera.

  • Cholera and typhoid were rampant and overseers used pick handles to physically force miners into the shafts.

  • At the time, New Orleans was a breeding ground for yellow fever and cholera.

  • Then there was the cholera that came in the night to the village by the bridge-works; and after the cholera smote the small-pox.

  • Cholera broke out at Lexington, Ky., number of deaths to August 1st, 502.

  • Added to this, an epidemic of cholera had just broken out in the town, and the childrens maid nearly fell a victim to the disease.

  • Four months after Zinadas marriage my mother was taken ill with cholera.

  • The first case of cholera asphixia in America occurred on this day at Quebec.