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Definition of Toxaemia

1. Noun. An abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine.

2. Noun. Blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood.

Definition of Toxaemia

1. Noun. Alternative spelling of toxemia, organic blood poisoning ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Toxaemia

1. toxemia [n -S] : TOXAEMIC [adj] - See also: toxemia

Medical Definition of Toxaemia

1. 1. The condition resulting from the spread of bacterial products (toxins) by the bloodstream. 2. A condition resulting from metabolic disturbances, for example toxaemia of pregnancy. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toxaemia

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Literary usage of Toxaemia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Medicine: Its Theory and Practice, in Original Contributions by by William Osler (1907)
"BY RICHARD M. PEARCE, MD Introduction — A consideration of toxaemia,' septicaemia and pyaemia is necessarily a discussion of infection and its sequelae. ..."

2. Obstetrics: A Text-book for the Use of Students and Practitioners by John Whitridge Williams (1912)
"Pre-eclamptic toxaemia usually appears in the latter part of the second half of pregnancy, and occurs but rarely in its early months. ..."

3. Essentials of the principles and practice of medicine: A Handy-book for by Henry Hartshorne (1867)
"toxaemia, more properly ... the strongest evidence, to depend upon a chemical and dynamic change in the blood, to which the name of toxaemia is applied. 1. ..."

4. The Principles of Bacteriology: A Practical Manual for Students and Physicians by Alexander Crever Abbott (1897)
"Infection and immunity—The types of infection; intimate nature of infection—Septicaemia, toxaemia, variations in infectious processes—Immunity, ..."

5. Memoranda Medica; Or, Note-book of Medical Principles by Henry Hartshorne (1860)
"... or 2, plasmic toxaemia, or 3, (Campbell & Miiller) sympathetic irritation from local inflammation. A pathological classification of fevers, ..."

6. Transactions of the Luzerne County Medical Society by Luzerne County Medical Society (1903)
"THE toxaemia OF PREGNANCY. BY EDWARD P. DAVIS, AM, If. D. Professor of Obstetrics in the ... The earliest manifestation of the toxaemia of pregnancy is ..."

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