toxemia of pregnancy

English

Alternative forms

  • toxaemia of pregnancy (UK)

Noun

toxemia of pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural toxemias of pregnancy)

  1. (dated) Synonym of preeclampsia.
    • 1983, Richard E. Behrman, Victor C. Vaughan, III, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics‎[1], W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, page 249:
      Iatrogenic poisoning can result from the use of magnesium in the treatment of hypertension or of toxemia of pregnancy; deaths have been reported from the use of magnesium sulfate enemas in megacolon and from oral administration for purging.
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