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Definition of: cholera
(kol′ər·ə) noun Pathol.
An acute, infectious, chiefly epidemic disease, occurring in many forms and characterized principally by serious intestinal disorders: it is caused by a bacterium (Vibrio comma) and in its more malignant forms, as Asiatic cholera, is usually fatal. [<L <Gk., cholera morbus (in Hippocrates)]
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