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water intoxication

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noun

  1. a nontechnical name for hyponatraemia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

Aside from elevated heart rate and blood pressure, the risks include overheating and water intoxication.

From The Verge May 22, 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 F. G. (Francis George) Fowler

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