cholera ‘kol’er-ah)

[Gr. χολέρα. from χολή bile]. An infectious epidemic disease. algid c., Asiatic cholera. Asiatic c., malignant c., a disease marked by copious watery alvine discharges, cramps, prostration. and suppre ion of the urine. The contagion of the disease is due to the comma bacillus. or Spiril’lum chol'era asiat’ica, which is contained in the discharges from the bowels, and mes di eminated by means of drinking- water. The disease is very fatal. death resulting from convulsions and exhaustion or from congestion of the lungs. automatic c., cholera characterized by movements which appear to be intentional. but which can be proved to be entirely independent of the patient's volition. bilious c., European c., a le dangerous cholera, characterized by vivlent and painful vomiting and by copious bilious stools. Called also c. nostras. simple c.. sporadic c., etc. chicken-c., a fatal epidemic disease of fowls, with inflammation of the lymphatic glands and digestive organs, caused by the Bacilius arisepticus. English c., cholera morbus. epidemic c., Asiatic cholera. fowl-c. See chicken-c. hog-c., an infectious communicable disease of swine occurring in epizobtics and caused by a filterable virus. It is marked by fever, lo of appetite, emaciation, ulceration of the intestines, diarrhea, and ecchymosis in the kidney and on the skin of the ventral surface of the body. Cf. swine-plague and salmonellosis. c. infan’tum, a common. and often fatal, noncontagious diarrhea of young children prevailing in the summer months. tc., Asiatic cholera. ©. morbus, acute gastro-enteritis, with diarrhea, cramps, and vomiting, occurring in summer or autumn, and usually caused by improper food. Ο. nostras. Same asc. morbus. c.-red, a red pigment, obtainable from the cholera spirillum. ©. sic’ca, cholera in which death takes place before diarrhea has ic c., . spasmodi Asiatic cholera. sporadic c., a disease with