Definition of "cholerine" []

• Minor diarrhea that happens during outbreaks of cholera. (noun)

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• "In a large proportion of cases, the disease takes the course first described above, the diarrhoea, called the _premonitory symptoms_, or sometimes _cholerine_, coming on several hours, if not a day or more, before any other symptoms."
• "There seemed to be an epidemic of cholerine among the children, three having already died and one succumbed while we were at the kampong."
• "He thought the gentleman's attack of cholerine must be connected with the beer which people were talking about in the country."