Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See toxemia, toxemic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Blood poisoning. See under blood.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of toxemia, organic blood poisoning

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  • noun blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood
  • noun an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine

Etymologies

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From Neo-Latin, from Ancient Greek (toxicon) 'poison', toxin' + (haima) 'blood'

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Examples

  • Autopsies of the dead animals suggest fluorine poisoning or pregnancy toxaemia as the cause of death.

    Volcanic Ash—Effects on Agriculture and Mitigation Strategies 2009

  • Autopsies of the dead animals suggest fluorine poisoning or pregnancy toxaemia as the cause of death.

    Volcanic Ash—Effects on Agriculture and Mitigation Strategies 2009

  • He died on January 29th of a phlegmon of the pharynx that had turned into an abscess and led to toxaemia.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • He was demobbed in February of 1919, and five months later he spent seven weeks in hospital, with a diagnosis of severe alcoholic toxaemia.

    A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996

  • He was demobbed in February of 1919, and five months later he spent seven weeks in hospital, with a diagnosis of severe alcoholic toxaemia.

    A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996

  • "Oh, I'd guess you'll be treating haemorrhage, toxaemia, ulceration, pneumonia ... maybe even encephalitis."

    Bush Doctor's Bride Lennox, Marion 1996

  • Christabelle and her mother were happily buried in the Family Medical Helper, their tongues practising all the complications known to man -- varicella haemorrhagica, varicella gangrenosa, ulceration, toxaemia, pneumonia, encephalitis.

    Bush Doctor's Bride Lennox, Marion 1996

  • Pathogenic spores germinate in the gut and the multiplying vegetative bacterial rods invade the haemocoel producing toxaemia and septicaemia.

    Chapter 8 1994

  • Vets were also doing the Caesarean for bad cases of pregnancy toxaemia because once delivered of her lambs the ewe had a better chance of recovery.

    Every living thing Herriot, James 1992

  • Only women expecting twins or triplets or experiencing complications such as toxaemia ended up in hospital; everyone else just got on with it at home.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Monica Fitten 2012

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