toxemia

[tok-see-mee-uh]

noun Pathology.

blood poisoning resulting from the presence of toxins, as bacterial toxins, in the blood.
toxemia of pregnancy.

Origin of toxemia

First recorded in 1855–60; tox- + -emia

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There is either a toxemia or a septicemia, with the usual symptoms of a general sepsis.
Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry
Maximilian Stern
The most common immediate exciting cause during pregnancy is toxemia from faulty metabolism and excretion.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation
Austin O'Malley
It is usually impossible to differentiate in pregnancy a lighting up of an old nephritis from a toxemia.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation
Austin O'Malley

also toxaemia, 1860, from toxo- (before vowels tox-, comb. form of Greek toxon (see toxic) + Greek haima "blood" (see -emia).

toxemia in Medicine

(tŏk-sē′mē-ə)

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.blood poisoning

Related formstox•e′mic (-mĭk) adj.

toxemia in Science

[tŏk-sē′mē-ə]

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. Also called blood poisoning