a serious disease caught from bacteria in water that causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting and often causes death霍乱- A cholera epidemic swept the country.霍乱席卷全国。
Topics Illnessc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + cholera… of choleracholera + nounSee full entry Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting bile and later applied to various ailments involving vomiting and diarrhoea): from Latin cholera ‘diarrhoea’ (from Greek kholera), which in late Latin acquired the senses ‘bile’ or ‘anger’, from Greek kholē ‘bile’. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.