Definition of Cholera infantum

1. Noun. Often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in children; not true cholera but having similar symptoms.


Medical Definition of Cholera infantum

1. Old term for a disease of infants, characterised by vomiting, profuse watery diarrhoea, fever, prostration, and collapse. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cholera Infantum

cholemias
cholemic nephrosis
cholenes
cholent
cholents
cholepathia
choleperitoneum
choleperitonitis
cholepoiesis
cholepoietic
choler
cholera
cholera-red reaction
cholera agar
cholera bacillus
cholera infantum (current term)
cholera morbus
cholera sicca
cholera toxin
cholera vaccine
choleragen
choleraic
choleraic diarrhoea
choleraphage
choleras
choleresis
choleretic
choleretics
cholerheic
choleric

Literary usage of Cholera infantum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1895)
"... of nucleated red corpuscles is attributed to the fact that in these cases the fetal process of blood-formation persists. TREATMENT OF cholera infantum. ..."

2. A Treatise on the physical and medical treatment of children by William Dewees (1858)
"OF cholera infantum. 1402. THIS is a disease almost peculiar to the climate of the United ... cholera infantum makes its approaches in different ways. ..."

3. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1826)
"THE great mortality of cholera infantum renders it one of the most interesting diseases, ... I have often compared our endeavours to cure cholera infantum, ..."

4. Transactions by Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York (1879)
"cholera infantum covers too much ground, and I think this due to lack of diagnostic acumen by us, ... cholera infantum has properly three stages : 2d stage. ..."

5. Baltimore Medical and Surgical Journal and Review edited by Eli Geddings (1833)
"V. Observations on cholera infantum. By NATHANIEL POTTER, MD Professor of ... cholera infantum would seem to have been peculiar to these United States, ..."

6. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1841)
"In the last number of the Journal I observe a recommendation of tee in cholera infantum. It is the first and only instance in which I have seen this article ..."

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