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choleraic
/ˌkɒl.əˈɹeɪ.ɪk/
adj 1noun 1
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adj
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Relating to, or resembling, cholera.
noun
1
A person suffering from cholera.
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.
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).
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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 the
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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
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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 t
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