Choleraic

Quick meaning: Choleraic is an adjective meaning Relating to, or resembling, cholera.

Meaning

Relating to, or resembling, cholera.

More Meanings

1. (now rare) A person suffering from cholera.

Example Sentences

Emaciation is therefore speedily developed, and may progress to an extreme degree; as [Étienne-Jules] Marey has tersely expressed it, choleraics even during life-time become cadavers (les cholériques le cadavérisent).

It will be vain to tell them that hireling attendance has been provided,—the life of the Choleraic depends upon the instant aid—the able bodied willing aid of affectionate friends, who will devote themselves to the task, and persevere indefatigably to the last.

During an epidemic like cholera, all that is base and cowardly in men of this stamp comes out in all its ugliness. Hence we see choleraics abandoned in the street, numbers of the dead lying about on the main roads of the capital, hosts of moribund men and women hurried down in hired vehicles from villages into towns. This is done to prevent their dying without the city walls.

Word Forms

• choleraics

Synonyms for choleraic

Depending on context, synonyms include choleric.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include diarrhoea, choleric, noncholera, choleroid, cholerigenous, cholagogic.

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