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choleraic

American  
[kah-luh-ray-ik] / ˌkɑ ləˈreɪ ɪk /

adjective

  1. relating to, resembling, or infected with cholera.


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A specific choleraic diarrhoea is as infectious as the evacuations which occur in completely developed cholera.

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

Yesterday's cold and bitter weather has fanned to an epidemic the choleraic dysentery which had been creeping through the trenches.

From Bulgaria by Fox, Frank, Sir

Many persons have been affected with dysentery and choleraic symptoms after partaking of butcher's meat of apparently the most healthy kind.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

For Basrah has the most malarial air, the most choleraic water, and the most infernal climate of any spot in the world outside 'Tophet.'

From With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 by Anonymous

But ignorant of sanitary discipline, camped among the filthy Turkish villages, the choleraic dysentery passed from the Turkish trenches to theirs.

From Bulgaria by Fox, Frank, Sir

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