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Toxemia

Definition: Toxemia

Toxemia

Noun

1. An abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine.

2. Blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Toxemia

DomainDefinition

Health

A generalized intoxication produced by toxins and other substances elaborated by an infectious agent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Toxemia

Synonyms: toxaemia (n), toxaemia of pregnancy (n), toxemia of pregnancy (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Toxemia

Specialty definitions using "toxemia": Clostridium novyi infectionmalignant edema, malignant oedema. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Toxemia" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (toxaemia, toxemia).

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Commercial Usage: Toxemia

DomainTitle

Books

  • Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy: A Disease of Malnutrition (reference)

  • Pathology of toxemia of pregnancy (reference)

  • Toxemia Explained (reference)

  • Toxemia explained : an antidote to fear, frenzy, and the popular mad chasing after so-called cures : the true interpretation of the cause of disease, how to cure is an obvious sequence (reference)

  • Toxemia Explained: The True Interpretation of the Cause of Disease (1926) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Expression: Toxemia

Expression using "toxemia": toxemia of pregnancy. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toxemia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

toxemia

402

pregnancy toxemia

30

in pregnancy toxemia

22

symptom toxemia

15

during pregnancy toxemia

6

gravidica toxemia

4

sign toxemia

3

preeclampsia toxemia

3

pregnancy symptom toxemia

2
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Modern Translation: Toxemia

Language Translations for "toxemia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

helmim gjaku (blood poisoning). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تسمم الدم (blood poisoning, toxaemia). (various references)

   

Danish

  

toxemi. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

toksemia. (various references)

   

French

  

toxémiase. (various references)

   

German

  

Toxämie (toxaemia). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τοξιναιμία, τοξαιμία. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

toxémia. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tossiemia (toxaemia). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

妊 中'症 (toxemia of pregnancy). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

に"し"ちゅうどくしょう (toxemia of pregnancy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oxemiatay

   

Portuguese

  

toxemia (toxaemia). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

токсемия (toxaemia). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

toximia, toxemia. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

toxemi (toxaemia). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

toksemi (toxaemia), kan zehirlenmesi (blood poisoning, pyaemia, sepsis, septemia, septicaemia, septicemia, toxaemia). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

зараження крові. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Toxemia

Derivations

Words beginning with "toxemia": toxemias. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Toxemia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: toxcemia, toximia, toxymia. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Toxemia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-o-t-x"

-2 letters: axiom, axite, moxie, oxime.

-3 letters: amie, atom, emit, exam, exit, iota, item, mate, maxi, meat, meta, mite, mixt, moat, mote, moxa, omit, oxim, tame, taxi, team, time, toea, tome.

-4 letters: aim, ait, ami, ate, axe, eat, eta, mae, mat, max, met, mix, moa, mot, oat, tae, tam, tao, tax, tea, tie, toe, tom.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-o-t-x"
 

+1 letter: toxaemia, toxaemic, toxemias.

 

+2 letters: proximate, tamoxifen, toxaemias.

 

+3 letters: axiomatize, chemotaxis, exhumation, tamoxifens, taxonomies.

 

+4 letters: approximate, axiomatized, axiomatizes, axonometric, examination, exclamation, exhumations, hematoxylin, proximately, thermotaxis, thigmotaxes.

 

+5 letters: ambidextrous, approximated, approximates, complexation, dominatrixes, examinations, exclamations, exophthalmic, exterminator, hematoxylins.

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Alternative Orthography: Toxemia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 78 65 6D 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01111000 01100101 01101101 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0078 0065 006D 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54819071797567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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