/ ˈkɒlərə; NAmE ˈkɑːl-/ noun
[ U ] a disease caught from infected water that causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting and often causes death
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WORD ORIGIN
late 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.