toxemia
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Drake suspects that one goat who was suffering from pregnancy toxemia is long dead because she didn’t receive the medicine she needed the next morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
An otherwise healthy 28-year-old had died from toxemia poisoning caused by pre-eclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy that went untreated.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
Dr. Clarkson barges in and demands to test for toxemia.
From Time ● Jan. 28, 2013
Physicians noted a toxemia which they believed due to a focal infection in her appendix.
From Time Magazine Archive
When excess toxemia is deposited instead of eliminated, the results can be arthritis if toxins are stored in joints, rheumatism if in muscle tissues, cysts and benign tumors.
From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon
