dromadery

Noun

dromedary (plural dromedaries)

1. The single-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius).
   • The duke in his schelde and dreches no lengere, / Drawes hym a dromedarie, with dredfulle knyghtez; […][c. 1400, Edmund Brock, editor, Morte Arthure, or The Death of Arthur: Edited from Robert Thornton’s MS. […], new edition (in Middle English), London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by...

   Synonyms:

   Arabian camel, dromedarian, dromedary camel, Somali camel

2. Any swift riding camel.
   • [T]hou art like a ſwift dromedarie, that runneth by his wayes.1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Ieremiáh II:23, folio...
3. (attributive, dated) Referring to a biphasic clinical course of poliomyelitis, typically occurring in children, characterized by a minor illness, followed by an asymptomatic period of several days before the onset of a major illness involving the central nervous system.
   • The untreated cases have been arranged in three groups according to the clinical course. The first group, called the dromedary group, shows the curious phenomenon of two different periods of illness with an interval of well-being. […] Because of the two distinct groups or humps of symptoms, the...1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 1153

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