Algid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Algid \Al"gid\ ([a^]l"j[i^]d), a. [L. algidus cold, fr. algere
     to be cold: cf. F. algide.]
     1. Cold; chilly. --Bailey. AS
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Med.) Characterized by the presence of shock and cold


        skin.
        [AS]
  
     {Algid cholera} (Med.),
        (a) A term formerly used for a classic untreated cholera
            (also called {Asiatic cholera}, caused by {Vibrio
            cholerae}); it is marked by three stages that succeed
            each other. These stages include a watery diarrhea
            stage, a stage of shock and collapse characterized by
            a cold skin and, the final stage of high fever.
            Patients usually die at the second stage of the
            disease.
        (b) In its modern use, algid cholera refers to a cholera
            that has entered the second stage of the disease. In
            the 19th century, the term algid cholera referred to
            Asiatic cholera, to distinguish it from other less
            specific intestinal afflictions.
            [AS]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  algid
       adj : chilly; "a person who is algid is marked by prostration and
             has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "algid":
     Siberian, aguey, aguish, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter,
     bitterly cold, bleak, blue with cold, boreal, brisk, brumal,
     chattering, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death,
     cold as ice, cold as marble, cool, crisp, cutting, dithery,
     freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frozen, frozen to death, gelid,
     glacial, half-frozen, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold,
     ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, nipping, nippy,
     numbing, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, severe,
     shaky, sharp, shivering, shivery, sleety, slushy, snappy,
     stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery,
     wintry, with chattering teeth