cholera infantum

American  

[in-fan-tuhm] / ɪnˈfæn təm /

noun

Pathology.

1. an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.

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Etymology

Origin of cholera infantum

1820–30, < New Latin: cholera of infants

Example Sentences

Marie died of cholera infantum; and Rose then died, although she had not been directly affected by the disease.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

"I hope not," he said; "I cannot tell as yet; the symptoms are like cholera infantum, of which I have several cases, but if taken in time I apprehend no danger."

From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Holmes, Mary Jane

Cuphea does not act with equal promptness in all forms of cholera infantum.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

Excessive heat, with improper food, often brought on cholera infantum, from which the infants sometimes died rapidly and in considerable numbers.

From Thirty Years a Slave by Hughes, Louis

In other acute bowel complaints with profuse diarrhoea they are acid, as in cholera infantum, but in epidemic cholera they are alkaline, because they consist chiefly of the water of the blood.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various