Chōl'e-rā, n.

n. [See supra.] (Med.) A disease characterized by vomiting and purging, as the essential symptoms, and also by griping and spasms in the legs and arms.

Cholera asphyxia, the more malignant form of this disease, called also Asiatic cholera. — Cholera morbus, the milder and more common form of the disease. Dunglison.