claudicant

From Latin claudicans, present participle of claudico (“to limp”), from claudus (“crippled”).

claudicant (comparative more claudicant, superlative most claudicant)

1. (medicine) limping

claudicant (plural claudicants)

1. (medicine) One who limps.
   • 2012, O. James Garden, Andrew W. Bradbury, John L. R. Forsythe, Principles and Practice of Surgery:

     A patient who was previously a claudicant may now have acute limb-threatening ischaemia, which then forces the surgeon or radiologist to re-intervene.

• “claudicant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Respelling of claudiquant, the present participle of claudiquer.

• IPA^(key): /klo.di.kɑ̃/

claudicant (feminine claudicante, masculine plural claudicants, feminine plural claudicantes)

1. limping

   Synonym: boiteux

   une démarche claudiquante ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• “claudicant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

claudicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of claudicō