autointoxication

[aw-toh-in-tok-suh-key-shuhn]

noun

Pathology.

1. poisoning with toxic substances formed within the body, as during intestinal digestion.

autointoxication

/ ˌɔːtəʊɪnˌtɒksɪˈkeɪʃən /

noun

1. Also called: autotoxaemia. self-poisoning caused by absorption of toxic products originating within the body

Word History and Origins

Origin of autointoxication¹

First recorded in 1885–90; auto- ¹ + intoxication

Example Sentences

If not quickly emptied, the stomach would pass on its rot to its neighboring organs, resulting in the “autointoxication” or poisoning of the body more generally.

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Call it autointoxication, Running away with me, Ever since the inauguration, running away with me.

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These apparent racists and misogynists have clearly suffered silently for a long time from what Albert Camus called “an autointoxication – the evil secretion, in a sealed vessel, of prolonged impotence”.

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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.”

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Autointoxication was one of the most pervasive and enduring concepts in the long, bloated history of medical pseudoscience.

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