chicken cholera

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noun Veterinary Pathology.

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Origin of chicken cholera

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby chicken cholera

chickee, chicken, chicken adder, chicken-and-egg, chicken breast, chicken cholera, chicken colonel, chicken coop, chicken feed, chicken fillet, chicken-fried

How to use chicken cholera in a sentence

Pasteur hastened to apply his discovery of the attenuation of the virus of chicken cholera to the virus of splenic fever.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8|Various
The particular disease experimented with was that infectious malady of poultry known familiarly as "chicken cholera."
A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams
It took considerable time and trouble to procure fresh cultures of the chicken-cholera microbe.
Makers of Modern Medicine|James J. Walsh
Other fowls promptly died, exhibiting all the characteristic symptoms of chicken cholera.
Makers of Modern Medicine|James J. Walsh

Then, working on the same lines as for chicken cholera, he proceeded to elaborate vaccine material for anthrax.
Makers of Modern Medicine|James J. Walsh