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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A toxic condition caused by the chronic overuse of bromides, characterized by mental dullness, loss of muscular coordination, and sometimes skin eruptions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A diseased condition produced by excessive use of bromides.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine
poisoning bybromine orbromides
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