toxemia

IPA: tɑksˈimiʌ

Examples of "toxemia" in Sentences

Pre-eclampsia, once known as toxemia, affects about three per cent of pregnant women in
It became full-blown eclampsia, which we used to call toxemia pregnancy, an extreme case.
Pregnancy-induced hypertension, also known as toxemia or pre-eclampsia can be very dangerous for both mom and baby.
KELLIE LIM, TRIPLE AMPUTEE: Well at the age of 8 I contracted meningeal toxemia which is the much feared bacterial meningitis.
Pre-eclampsia, which used to be referred to as toxemia, is characterized by high blood pressure, protein in the urine, and fluid retention in the legs, hands, and face.
Extremely severe pre-eclampsia also known as toxemia; women who had rheumatic fever when children, who hoped to have babies but whose hearts prove unequal to the stress of labor; etc.
As it happened, however, there was really no chance for Jason's heart disease to develop, for that night he scratched his finger, which brought about the much more imminent danger of blood-poisoning -- "toxemia," Jason said it was.
The appearance of convulsions which have been preceded by one or more of the symptoms noted under the head of "toxemia," indicates that the patient has become so profoundly intoxicated and poisoned by the accumulating toxins, that the lives of both mother and child are jeopardized by threatened eclampsia.