Toxaemia

Definition

toxaemia (also toxemia ) /tɒk'si:miǝ/ n [U] ( medical ) = BLOOD-POISONING

Examples

1. ‘The patient often became severely ill from the general manifestations of infection - fever
2. rigors
3. and toxaemia - and was very likely to die when this occurred.’
4. ‘The classic textbook description of acute haematogenous osteomyelitis includes severe pain
5. fever
6. and toxaemia.’
7. ‘Patients with tuberculosis empyema present with chest pain
8. breathlessness
9. cough with expectoration
10. and toxaemia.’
11. ‘Almost immediately
12. they stumble into a raw spectrox nest that quickly infects them with spectrox toxemia - an almost incurable
13. fatal disease.’
14. ‘The injection can alleviate toxemia
15. raise the blood pressure and improve the general condition of the patients.’
16. ‘The evidence that ambulatory blood pressure measurement may predict pre-eclamptic toxaemia is not yet conclusive.’
17. ‘It may also be called toxemia or pregnancy-induced hypertension.’
18. ‘During her second pregnancy his wife
19. Shelley
20. developed toxemia; the couple awaited the new baby's birth with trepidation.’
21. ‘Moreover
22. no significant differences in infant growth were noted between the presence/absence of toxemia during pregnancy
23. cesarean section
24. and smoking habit.’
25. ‘Women pregnant with multiples are more likely than those with singletons to suffer premature delivery
26. toxemia (a potentially fatal form of high blood pressure)
27. and hemorrhage.’