cholein (kolein)

[ cho lemes is, cho lemes i a (ko-lem'e-sis, kol-emē'si-ä), n. [NL., Throw cold water on thy choler . Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 3. Stay not within the bounds Marsilius holds; Lest, little brooking these unfitting braves, My choler overslip the law of arms. Greene, Orlando Furioso. Wee see you are in choler, therefore till you coole a while wee turne us to the ingenuous Reader. Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. =Syn. 2. Anger, Vexation, Indignation, etc. See anger1. cholera (kol'e-ra), n. [L. cholera, bile, a bilious ailment, ticles suspended in them ("rice-water stools"), vomiting, cramps, especially in the legs and abdominal walls, and profound collapse: specifically termed Asiatic cholera. In cholera, as in typhoid fever, the morbific particles, probably living germs, seem, as a rule, to be transmitted by emanation or exhalation from the stools of the patient. They are destroyed by boiling. The period of incubation is short, from a few hours to two or three days. Cholera is endemic in India, and at different periods it has swept as an epidemic with great violence over Asia and (since 1829) over Europe and America. 2. An acute disorder of the digestive organs, not epidemic, marked by vomiting, purging, colic, and cramps in the legs and abdominal walls, with considerable exhaustion, mostly confined to the hotter months, and frequently due to errors of diet: specifically called sporadic cholera and cholera morbus.-3. A destructive infectious disease of fowls, characterized by a yellow or green diarrhea, with an offensive odor, and great weakne and speedy death. It is held to be caused by a bacterium, and is promoted by uncleanline . Usually called chicken - cholera or fowl - cholera. -Algid cholera. See algid. Cholera infantum (infants cholera), a term somewhat loosely applied to threatening cases of enterocolitis or sporadic cholera in infants. Cholera morbus (cholera disease), a term popularly applied to sporadic and occasionally to Asiatic cholera. -Hog-cholera, a specific highly contagious fever of swine, attended by inflammation of the lungs, stomach, intestines, and other organs, usually diarrhea, frequently cough, and extravasations of blood in the skin and mucous membranes. It is believed to be caused by the Bacillus minimus. ( Klein.) Also called infectious pneumo - enteritis, swine - plague, erysipelas malignum, and intestinal fever of swine. choleraic (kol-e-rā'ik), a. [ choleric1 (kol'e-rik), a. and n. [Early mod. E. colerick, Our two great poets being so different in their tempers, the one cholerick and sanguine, the other phlegm a tick and mel ancho lick. Dryden. He had something of the choleric complexion of his countrymen stamped on his visage. Lamb , South-Sea House. 2. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger; angry: as, a choleric temper. When the guide perceived it, he grew so extreme choleric that he threatened Mr. I. H. Coryat, Crudities, I. 34. Sir Robert is choleric enough, but then, as he is provoked without cause, he is appeased without reason. Foote , The Bankrupt, i. 3. Indicating or expre ing anger; prompted by anger; angry: as, a choleric speech. That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. Shak., M. for M., ii. 2. =Syn. 2. Testy, touchy, peppery, irritable. II. n. A person of a bilious or choleric tem per ament. The dyeuel... him asayleth stranglakest [strongliest] thane [the] colrik mid ire and discord. Ayenbite of Inwyt , p. 157.