toxemia
Americannoun
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blood poisoning resulting from the presence of toxins, as bacterial toxins, in the blood.
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A condition in which the blood contains bacterial toxins disseminated from a local source of infection or metabolic toxins resulting from organ failure or other disease.
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Also called blood poisoning
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Drake suspects that one goat who was suffering from pregnancy toxemia is long dead because she didn’t receive the medicine she needed the next morning.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2024
An otherwise healthy 28-year-old had died from toxemia poisoning caused by pre-eclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy that went untreated.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Dr. Clarkson barges in and demands to test for toxemia.
From Time • Jan. 28, 2013
This efficacy of diet in pernicious anemia suggests it may be a deficiency disease, as pellagra or rickets, rather than an infection or a toxemia, as had been supposed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The subject of blood-pressure in relation to pregnancy will be fully dealt with in the next chapter—in connection with toxemia, eclampsia, etc.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
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