autointoxication
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of autointoxication
First recorded in 1885–90; auto- 1 + intoxication
Example Sentences
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Call it autointoxication, Running away with me, Ever since the inauguration, running away with me.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2019
The gospel of autointoxication and internal putrescence was laid on thick and spiked with testimonials: from customers, doctors, clergy, all wordily professing their satisfaction and gratitude.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2013
And the theory behind fecal self-poisoning — aka autointoxication — makes strong intuitive sense.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2013
The autointoxication zealots would counter that, as John Harvey Kellogg put it, “the foul fecal matters in the colon pass back into the small intestine.”
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2013
Under these favorable circumstances symptoms of autointoxication probably occur not oftener than once in every hundred pregnancies, but nine out of ten of them, being promptly recognized, yield readily to relatively simple treatment.
From The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy by J. Morris (Josiah Morris) Slemons
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