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adj. - Relating to or resulting from or resembling any of several diseases of man and domestic animals usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms

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  • There was, of course, great choleraic water contamination, and a sudden outburst of cholera took place.
  • Nor was the destruction delayed by placing choleraic excreta in or upon earth, dry or moist, or mixed with stagnant water.
  • For Basrah has the most malarial air, the most choleraic water, and the most infernal climate of any spot in the world outside 'Tophet.'
  • The sufferers from this sow the germs of the disease in numerous, often distant and obscure, places, to which no choleraic person is supposed to have come.
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