Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of toxemia; affected with toxemia; septicemic.
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- adjective affected by or otherwise relating to
toxemia ,organically poisoned
Etymologies
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Examples
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Flesh foods should also be avoided by the diabetic as they increase the toxemic condition and reduce sugar tolerance.
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The real cause of conjunctivitis however results from the toxemic condition of the body brought about by faulty style of living and wrong feeding habits.
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Mud packs are also very beneficial for an epilepsy patient as they help in removing toxemic conditions of the intestines and thereby hasten the removal of epileptic conditions.
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Flesh foods should also be avoided by the diabetic as they increase the toxemic condition and reduce sugar tolerance.
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Binswanger11 states that the mental disorders occurring in acute and chronic nephritis are either toxemic psychoses on uremic bases, or due to arteriosclerosis.
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In the case of fever, which also invariably involves a toxemic condition of the body, the elimination of the poisons through the skin should be accomplished by methods which do not involve the external use of heat in this manner.
Vitality Supreme Bernarr Macfadden 1911
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This hot bath is rather strenuous treatment, but it is effective, if one is strong vitally, for rapidly purifying the blood and eliminating the poisons in the body in any toxemic condition.
Vitality Supreme Bernarr Macfadden 1911
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I don't think it hysterical, epileptic, or toxemic.
The Treasure-Train 1908
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