choleriformadj.n.

1835 Periscope July in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 23 199/1 Intense choleriform peritonitis, induced by perforation of the intestines.

1885 Lancet 25 Apr. 778/1 In all waters..there exist curved bacilli of variable forms and dimensions, among which those of the type that are described as choleriform are constantly found.

1903 Daily Chron. 21 Feb. 5/6 These include typhoid and typhus,..all choleriform disorders, plague, yellow fever, [etc.].

1921 Internat. Med. Digest 2 547 The endogenic infection hypothesis cannot explain why choleriform diarrhea is never seen in exclusively breast-fed infants.

1951 Adv. in Food Res. 3 216 They describe the manifestations of Salmonellosis as choleriform, dysentery-like and simple diarrheas.

2003 tr. H. Krauss et al. Zoonoses ii. 197 (table) Choleriform enteritis, traveler's diarrhea.

1884 Sat. Rev. 5 July 19/2 M. Fauvel..declaring the disease..a form of cholerine, choleriform, or cholera nostras—of anything, in fact, but Asiatic cholera itself.

1892 Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gaz. 22 July 1/1 Officially the disease is styled epidemic choleriform.

1915 S. G. Gant Diarrheal, Inflammatory, Obstructive, & Parasitic Dis. Gastro-intestinal Tract vi. 84 The expressions choleriform and cholerine have been employed by some authorities to indicate exceedingly mild Asiatic cholera, but they are confusing, because they have also been used for other purposes.