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toxemia
[ tok-see-mee-uh ]
noun
- blood poisoning resulting from the presence of toxins, as bacterial toxins, in the blood.
toxemia
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- A condition in which the blood contains bacterial toxins disseminated from a local source of infection or metabolic toxins resulting from organ failure or other disease.
- Also called blood poisoning
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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.
An otherwise healthy 28-year-old had died from toxemia poisoning caused by pre-eclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy that went untreated.
Queen Bey shared in a September 2018 issue of Vogue that she suffered from “toxemia,†also know as preeclampsia, while pregnant with her twins, Rumi and Sir.
Hampton said the ewe was suffering from a condition called pregnancy toxemia.
“When I was pregnant with my daughter North, I had a condition called preeclampsia or toxemia, which is basically when the mom’s organs start to shut down,†Kim, 39, explained.
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