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Definition of Food poisoning
1. Noun. Illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food.
Generic synonyms: Illness, Malady, Sickness, Unwellness
Specialized synonyms: Botulism, Mushroom Poisoning, Ptomaine, Ptomaine Poisoning, Salmonellosis
Definition of Food poisoning
1. Noun. (pathology) Common term for any food-borne disease, such as salmonella, which causes diarrhea, nausea, fever and abdominal cramps. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Food poisoning
1. The development of gastroenteritis secondary to the consumption of bacteria or their toxic byproducts. Onset of symptoms may occur anywhere from 30 minutes to 12 hours after the ingestion of the tainted foodstuffs. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Food Poisoning
Literary usage of Food poisoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"This book gives in concise form the types of food poisoning and discusses recent
investigations in diseases due to food poisoning. ..."
2. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"The Mosaic regulations in regard to foods forbidden to the Jews are evidently
designed in part to avoid the occurrence of food poisoning. ..."
3. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"food poisoning is commonly due to the Bacillus ... Savage insists that no food
poisoning outbreaks have been shown to be due to B. ..."
4. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"GERMAN LITERATURE ON FOOD-POISONING.—In looking over the literature on food-poisoning
one cannot fail to be impressed by the enormous number of researches ..."
5. The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Internal Disease: Designed for the Use of by Frederick Forchheimer (1910)
"For the treatment of other intoxications the reader is referred to the appendix.
V. food poisoning food poisoning always depends upon the taking of food ..."
6. Personal Hygiene Applied by Jesse Feiring Williams (1922)
"A distinction is to be made between food infections and food poisoning. ...
There have been in recent years numerous cases of food poisoning. ..."
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