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.

claudicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of claudicō