CHOLERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cholera mean? 

• CHOLERA (noun)
  The noun CHOLERA has 1 sense:

1. an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food

  Familiarity information: CHOLERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOLERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Asiatic cholera; cholera; epidemic cholera; Indian cholera

Hypernyms ("cholera" is a kind of...):

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

Derivation:

choleraic (relating to or resulting from or resembling cholera)

 Context examples 

Anyone who thinks they may have cholera should seek medical attention immediately.

(Cholera, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Due to its cytotoxicity, cholera toxin is being studied for tumor cell targeting and cancer chemotherapy.

(Cholera Toxin, NCI Thesaurus)

An antibiotic agent with activity against drug-resistant strains of cholera bacteria.

(Furalazine, NCI Thesaurus)

Furazolidone is also active in treating typhoid fever, cholera and salmonella infections.

(Furazolidone, NCI Thesaurus)

However, the system would struggle with dangerous chemical pollution, like heavy metals and the more resistant waterborne pathogens such as cholera and salmonella

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

What happens when the urgency to contain and stop the impact of COVID-19, or for that matter cholera, polio, measles and Ebola, reaches populations unable to respond?

(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)

ADP-ribosylation factors (ARFs) are 20-kDa guanine nucleotide-binding proteins, members of the Ras GTPase superfamily that were initially recognized and purified because of their ability to stimulate the ADP-ribosyltransferase activity of the cholera toxin A subunit.

(ADP-Ribosylation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Doctors diagnose cholera with a stool sample or rectal swab.

(Cholera, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Secreted by Vibrio cholerae, Cholera Toxin is a natural bacterial enterotoxin consisting of major components heavy A- and light B peptides (choleragenoid) that initiates a signaling cascade in intestinal epithelial cells causing a dysfunction of chloride channels, loss of water, and diarrhea.

(Cholera Toxin, NCI Thesaurus)

Cholera is rare in the US.

(Cholera, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)