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cholera morbus

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chol·er·a mor·bus

old term for acute severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology, marked by severe colic, vomiting, and diarrhea with watery stools; formerly common during hot weather.
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cholera morbus

(môr′bəs)
n.
Acute gastroenteritis occurring in summer and autumn and marked by severe cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting. No longer in scientific use.
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cholera morbus

Any severe form of gastroenteritis which clinically resembles cholera, characterised by abundant watery diarrhoea, affecting any age group and allegedly more common in hot weather; it is no longer used in the working medical parlance.
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References in periodicals archive
(16.) Cholera morbus; pleurisy; fits; worms; dropsy.
Cholera in Haiti and other Caribbean regions, 19th century
Albers, a Prussian Physician, on the Cholera Morbus, Dated Moscow 9/21 March 1831," Report on Cholera Morbus, 9.
Petersburg, 17/29 April 1851," Report on Cholera Morbus, 6, 9.
Preparing for the pandemic: city boards of health and the arrival of cholera in Montreal, New York, and Philadelphia in 1832
"A New Song on the Cholera Morbus." Wheeler, printer, 1831 [?].
A sinful and suffering nation: cholera and the evolution of medical and religious authority in Britain, 1832-1866
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