Dictionary entry

Toxemia

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

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