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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cholera infantum¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Scientific American

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

From Project Gutenberg

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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