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cholera infantum

[ in-fan-tuhm ]

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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cholera infantum1

1820–30, Americanism; < New Latin: cholera of infants
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Example Sentences

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Indeed, Crumpler, who insisted that prevention was a better strategy than treatment, devoted two chapters to the prevention and treatment of cholera infantum.

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

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I never said I was sick or had the cholera infantum or anything of that sort.

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The effect of the sea-air upon a child sick with the summer scourge of the tenements, cholera infantum, is little less than miraculous.

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I have often compared our endeavours to cure cholera infantum, while these causes remain, to an attempt to relieve inflammation in a part, while a thorn is sticking in the flesh.

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