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- noun Plural form of
toxemia .
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Examples
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-- In order to understand what are known as the toxemias of pregnancy, we must remember that the nutrition of our bodies involves three separate and distinct sets of processes.
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912
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In our laboratory experiments and in our clinical observations we have found that exhaustion produced by intense emotion, prolonged physical exertion, insomnia, intense fear, certain toxemias, hemorrhage, and the condition commonly denominated surgical shock, produce similar outward manifestations and identical brain-cell changes.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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Although the kidneys are not responsible for all the toxemias of pregnancy, an analysis of the urine affords the most definite means of determining whether or not such a condition is present.
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912
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Such toxemias, with extremely rare exceptions, do not occur in the early months, but are associated with the period of the active growth of the fetus, namely, the second half of pregnancy.
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912
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By far the most important members of this group are the toxemias of pregnancy.
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912
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At present the value of prevention in the treatment of the toxemias of pregnancy is so clearly recognized that charitable organizations employ nurses to visit women of the poorer classes during pregnancy in order to instruct them about the measures that I have just indicated.
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912
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