choleraic

comparative more choleraic · superlative most choleraic

1. Relating to, or resembling, cholera.

   Synonyms: choleric

plural choleraics

1. archaicA person suffering from cholera.

   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).

   1885 May, Edmund Charles Wendt, John C[harles] Peters, Ely McClellan, John B[rown] Hamilton, Geo[rge] M[iller] Sternberg, “The Organs of Circulation”, in A Treatise on Asiatic Cholera (Wood’s Library of Standard Medical Authors), New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company […], →OCLC, page 236

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   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.

   1832, William Fergusson, “Postscript”, in Letters upon Cholera Morbus, with Observations upon Contagion, Quarantine, and Disinfecting Fumigations, London: S. Highley, […] Callow and Wilson, […], →OCLC, pages 35–36

   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.

   1910 September 24, M. M. Basil, “Notes on Cholera”, in The British Medical Journal, London: British Medical Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 841, column 1

   Synonyms: choleric