Definitions for cholera

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cholera chol·er·a

Spelling: [kol-er-uh]

IPA: /ˈkɒl ər ə/

Cholera is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in cholera (acehlor).

Definitions for cholera

noun

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.
2. 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.

Origin of cholera

1600-05 in sense “gastrointestinal disease”; 1800-05 for current sense Latin: disease caused by bile Greek choléra; see choler

Examples for cholera

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

People are dying of cholera in New York at the rate of 353 a day.

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

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

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

In May, 1869, the Gambia was visited by a severe epidemic of cholera.

Then cholera swept our countryside, and we heard she had taken it and died.

Then, too, when our artist friend was with us we were in the grasp of an epidemic of cholera.

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

This attack proved to be the cholera, which came near carrying me off.