cholera

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

霍乱,痧,罗疹

Definitions

n.名词 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.
- : 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.

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Definitions

n.名词 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.
- : 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.