Asiatic cholera

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. cholera.

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Asiatic cholera British  

noun

1. another name for cholera

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Etymology

Origin of Asiatic cholera

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

In the 1840s and 1850s the U. S. was periodically swept by Asiatic cholera.

From Time Magazine Archive

Asiatic cholera decimated many towns in the 1830s and '40s.

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Special bacteriophage has also been successful against Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague.*

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For dust-jacket purposes, it may be described as the stirring adventures of a young Italian officer making his way home through the south of France during the terrible 1838 epi demic of Asiatic cholera.

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It may carry typhoid fever, Asiatic cholera, dysentery, cholera morbus, and other intestinal diseases; it may carry the bacilli of tuberculosis and certain eye diseases.

From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur