Relating to or characterized by colliquation; describing fever or discharge caused by liquefaction of bodily tissues.
From Latin 'colliquativus,' the adjectival form of 'colliquare.' Medical writers used this term to classify a specific type of disease manifestation involving liquid loss.
Medieval and Renaissance doctors classified 'colliquative fevers' as among the worst diseases because they involved constant sweating and body fluid loss that drained patients to exhaustion—a diagnosis that meant a long, wasting death.
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