cholepyrrhin rubin. (ko-le-pir'rin)

See bilicholera (kol'er-ah). Any condition characterized by repeated simultaneous purging and vomiting, with painful spasms of the stomach and bowels and occasional cramps of the external muscles. As commonly used, the term means Asiatic c. algid c. See Asiatic c. Asiatic c. An acute infectious disease, indigenous to India, China, or eastern Asia, whence it is sometimes conveyed to other places in the form of destructive epidemics, due to the ingestion of the specific microorganism Spirillum cholerae asiaticae, or comma bacillus. The disease is characterized by vomiting and purging, the discharges resembling rice water; by painful cramps; and by the early occurrence of collapse with suppre ion of urine and a peculiar coldne of the breath, bilious c. A form of simple c. (q. v.) characterized by purging, vomiting of bile, and spasms of the lower extremities, chicken c. A disease affecting chickens, resembling Asiatic c. in its symptoms; according to Hueppe, a variety of septicemia identical with rabbit's septicemia, c. bacillus. See Spirillum cholerae asiaticae, under Spirillum. c. cells. Various fungi found in choleraic dejecta, c. gall iii arum. See chicken c. c. infantum. An American name for an acute gastro-intestinal disease of infants, characterized by profuse watery diarrhea with vomiting and tending to end speedily in death by collapse. c. morbus. Syn. European c, simple c. The term in common use for severe purging and vomiting from any cause, c. nostras. See c. morbus, c. red. A reaction consisting of a red or pink color, appearing when 5 drops of pure sulphuric acid are added to a 24-hour culture of the Spirillum cholerae. c. torpid a. Asiatic c. in which muscular weakne is marked, c. typhoid. The secondary fever of Asiatic c; a condition resembling typhus. European c. See c. morbus, hog c. Syn.: swine plague. A disease of hogs which first appeared in the United States in i860. Its symptoms are a macular and papular ertip^. tion of the skin, high fever, drooping of the ears and head, coughing, with accelerated respiration and dyspnea, and a staggering gait. There is usually constipation, but sometimes diarrhea, with abdominal tenderne , rapid emaciation, and progre ive debility. The excrement has a peculiar color and a peculiar, offensive odor, simple c. See c. morbus. [Gr., chole, bile, + rein, to flow.] chol'eric. 1. Abounding in choler or bile. 2. Easily excited to anger. cholerine (kol'er-en). j. A mild form of cholera, closely resembling Asiatic cholera. 2.Earliest stage of epidemic cholera. choleroid (kol'er-oyd). Resembling cholera. [Gr., cholera, cholera, + eidos, resemblance.] cholerophobia (kol"er-o-fo'be-ah). An exaggerated dread of cholera. [Gr., cholera, cholera, + phobos, fear.] cho les tear i lin (ko-les"te-ar'il-in). A gaseous compound, formed by the action of strong sulphuric acid on cholesterin. cho les tea tom a (ko-les-te-a-to'mah). PI, cho les tea to mat a. A form of cystic tumor containing small hairs and crystals o^ cholesterin. It occurs most frequently in the pia mater of the brain and sometimes in the subcutaneous areolar ti ue. Under the microscope the contents show a laminated layer of flat, round, or polygonal cells, generally non-nuclear. [Gr., chole, bile, + steatoma, a sebaceous tumor.]