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autotoxemia

American  
[aw-toh-tok-see-mee-uh] / ˌɔ toʊ tɒkˈsi mi ə /
Or autotoxaemia

noun

Pathology.
  1. autointoxication.


Etymology

Origin of autotoxemia

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

Example Sentences

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He finds "autotoxemia" in his patients, found it in the reporter too, who also gravely suffered from "neurarchy with a basis of autotoxin."

From Time Magazine Archive

He teaches that the law of compensation applies to health; that all disease is one and the same fundamentally; that "Autotoxemia is the fundamental basic cause of all diseases."

From Project Gutenberg

The patient is suffering from autointoxication or autotoxemia.

From Project Gutenberg

Those were the years when he had many troubles: insomnia, neuralgia, and especially a trouble he called malaria, but which was largely autotoxemia.

From Project Gutenberg