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单词 toxaemia
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Definition of toxaemia in English:

toxaemia

(US toxemia)
nountɒkˈsiːmɪətɑkˈsimiə
mass noun
  • 1Blood poisoning by toxins from a local bacterial infection.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The injection can alleviate toxemia, raise the blood pressure and improve the general condition of the patients.
    • Patients with tuberculosis empyema present with chest pain, breathlessness, cough with expectoration, fever, and toxaemia.
    • The classic textbook description of acute haematogenous osteomyelitis includes severe pain, fever, and toxaemia.
    • Almost immediately, they stumble into a raw spectrox nest that quickly infects them with spectrox toxemia - an almost incurable, fatal disease.
    • 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.
    1. 1.1
      another term for pre-eclampsia
      Example sentencesExamples
      • 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.
      • Moreover, no significant differences in infant growth were noted between the presence/absence of toxemia during pregnancy, cesarean section, and smoking habit.
      • 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.
      • The evidence that ambulatory blood pressure measurement may predict pre-eclamptic toxaemia is not yet conclusive.

Derivatives

  • toxaemic

  • adjectiveˌtɑːkˈsiːmɪktɑkˈsimɪk
    • In cases of toxemic pregnancy, this time was markedly prolonged, to as long as 88 min, and the activitytime curves showed a plateau effect.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Anything that uses up nerve-energy enervates, and the child becomes toxemic because the elimination of toxin is impeded.
      • Dr. Lueck observed the organism in the placental tissue of toxemic mothers and identified it in the circulating blood of toxemic patients.
      • When used in hemodialysis, it is part of an artificial kidney system for the treatment of patients with renal failure or toxemic conditions and provides access to a patient's blood for hemodialysis.
      • The second or toxemic stage of pertussis follows relatively nonspecific symptoms of the colonizaton stage.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from toxi- + -aemia.

 
 

Definition of toxemia in US English:

toxemia

(British toxaemia)
nountäkˈsēmēətɑkˈsimiə
  • 1Blood poisoning by toxins from a local bacterial infection.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The classic textbook description of acute haematogenous osteomyelitis includes severe pain, fever, and toxaemia.
    • The injection can alleviate toxemia, raise the blood pressure and improve the general condition of the patients.
    • Patients with tuberculosis empyema present with chest pain, breathlessness, cough with expectoration, fever, and toxaemia.
    • Almost immediately, they stumble into a raw spectrox nest that quickly infects them with spectrox toxemia - an almost incurable, fatal disease.
    • 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.
    1. 1.1
      another term for preeclampsia
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The evidence that ambulatory blood pressure measurement may predict pre-eclamptic toxaemia is not yet conclusive.
      • 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.
      • It may also be called toxemia or pregnancy-induced hypertension.
      • Moreover, no significant differences in infant growth were noted between the presence/absence of toxemia during pregnancy, cesarean section, and smoking habit.
      • During her second pregnancy his wife, Shelley, developed toxemia; the couple awaited the new baby's birth with trepidation.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from toxi- + -emia.

 
 
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