Difference between diarrhoea and cholera
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noun
- frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
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The lexical diarrhoea, the mememe contents, the Pennine Chain I-Know-Everything certainty.
Anti-diarrhoeal agents, such as loperamide, are sometimes helpful to reduce bowel frequency but should be avoided in children.
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours.
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noun
- an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food
Examples
Epidemics of botulism and cholera exacted a heavy toll on waterfowl in the West.
Some camps will become unreachable, and there will be an increased possibility of malaria and cholera outbreaks.
Haiti ' s national public-health laboratory and the CDC identified it in late October as Vibrio cholerae O1, serotype Ogawa, biotype El Tor.
