paludic

See also: palúdic

English

From Latin palus (“marsh”) +‎ -ic.

paludic (comparative more paludic, superlative most paludic)

Alternative form of paludal
- 1908, George Milbry Gould, Borderland studies:
  The form of the paludic ameba is spherical when it is big and strong.
- 2002, Leon Etienne Parent, Piotr Ilnicki, Organic Soils and Peat Materials for Sustainable Agriculture, →ISBN, page 2:
  The paludic soils, coded "Pt," characterize peat accumulated in fen, transitional, or bog mire ecosystems.
(obsolete) Synonym of malarial
- 1885, New York Medical Abstract:
  The six forms of it studied successively by the author are : paludic orchidalgia, orchitis of the neuralgic form, hemorrhagic orchitis complicated with paludism, primitive paludic orchitis, chronic paludic orchitis, and paludic urethritis.
- 1907, Public Health Papers and Reports - Volume 32, Part 1, page 115:
  The principle explaining the transmission of paludic diseases through the introduction of the protozoa into the body of the Anopheles, and consequently into the vertebrate animals is universally accepted.
- 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World:
  Quinine, for example, was a known treatment for malaria and other 'bilious fevers of a paludic nature'.

paludic m or n (feminine singular paludică, masculine plural paludici, feminine and neuter plural paludice)

Declension of paludic