water intoxication
Britishnoun
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If a patient is mistakenly treated with vasopressin, it can lead to water intoxication, which can be life-threatening.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023
He died three days later from the consequences of water intoxication.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
That can cause a condition known as water intoxication, which can lead to dangerous complications like seizures in young babies.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
“Although ketoacidosis and water intoxication were the physiological mechanisms that shut her body down, the root cause of Daramis’s death was a system that did not care about her,” the lawsuit claims.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
What effect their draught produces on the children, what doings the men are spurred to, Pan-ridden, must not detain us; but the behaviour of the old under their water intoxication has its interest.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
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