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

Prebirth information begins with a detailed form in which the mother can describe her pregnancy, including such complications as toxemia and German measles.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when the body is faced with toxemia, the secondary organs of elimination are frequently pressed into this duty and the consequences are the symptoms we call illness.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve