| 单词 | cholera victim |
| 释义 | > as lemmascholera victim C1. General attributive (in sense 4), as cholera epidemic, cholera hospital, cholera patient, cholera victim, etc. ΚΠ 1820 Ann. Philos. 15 Index 478/1 Cholera epidemic in Bombay, report on. 1833 A. T. Christie Epidemic Cholera 35 The discharges always consist entirely of a peculiar fluid, which has been very appropriately named the cholera secretion. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. 699 Used in the Cholera Hospital. 1883 Daily News 31 July 5/7 A cholera camp is being prepared near Mokattam. 1900 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) I. 715/1 The wash and linen of cholera patients, floors of dwellings, etc., may be disinfected by a five-per-cent. solution of carbolic acid and soap water. 1922 M. Baring Puppet Show of Memory xxiii. 428 At San Stefano..the cholera victims were lying like flies on the railway embankment. 1943 T. Kitching Diary 17 Aug. in Life & Death in Changi (1998) xi. 242 As for the cholera scare, the Nipponese have reported a suspected case. 1974 Indian Jrnl. Med. Res. 62 495 Streptomycin and paromomycin were selected for treatment of cholera carriers at Hong-kong. 1992 Indian Express Sund Mag Aug. 3/1 The 1988 cholera epidemic, which left hundreds of Delhites dead. 2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 June 41/4 Cholera germs normally spread by what epidemiologists call the ‘fecal-oral route’. < as lemmas |
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