toxemia

American  

[tok-see-mee-uh] / tɒkˈsi mi ə /

Or toxaemia

noun

Pathology.

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

2. toxemia of pregnancy.

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toxemia Scientific  

/ tŏk-sē′mē-ə /

1. 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.

2. Also called blood poisoning

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Etymology

Origin of toxemia

First recorded in 1855–60; tox(o)- + -emia

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• toxemia vs. preeclampsia

Example Sentences

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

Say Captain Maximillian Christian Kern and the other Navy doctors who report the case in the Naval Medical Bulletin: "Burn patients die not of their burns, but of shock, toxemia or sepsis."

From Time Magazine Archive

Raw meat and raw fish are actually easily digestible foods and if not wrongly combined will not produce toxemia in a person that still has a strong pancreas.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve