Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The diarrhea which commonly precedes the severe symptoms in an attack of Asiatic cholera, or which occurs during the prevalence of cholera in cases where no further symptoms are developed. These cases may be considered abortive cases of cholera.—
- noun A name formerly used to designate the morbific agent of Asiatic cholera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The precursory symptoms of cholera.
- noun The first stage of epidemic cholera.
- noun A mild form of cholera.
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- noun pathology Minor
diarrhea that happens during outbreaks ofcholera .
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Examples
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In a large proportion of cases, the disease takes the course first described above, the diarrhoea, called the _premonitory symptoms_, or sometimes _cholerine_, coming on several hours, if not a day or more, before any other symptoms.
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There seemed to be an epidemic of cholerine among the children, three having already died and one succumbed while we were at the kampong.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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He thought the gentleman's attack of cholerine must be connected with the beer which people were talking about in the country.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
52james commented on the word cholerine
Stepan Trofimovich gets "cholerine" in Pevear & Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky's Demons; in the Magarshack translation, Devils, Stepan gets "gastric catarrh"—seems it's just a bad case of the nervous drizzleshits.
October 2, 2011