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toxication|tɒksɪˈkeɪʃən|
[n. of action f. med.L. toxicāre: see prec.]
Poisoning: esp. by toxic substances produced by disease-germs.
1821Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. X. 243, I..know of no reason, why to these toxications, (especially when taken through the skin, and to the cataleptic state produced by them,) we should not attribute the poor wretches' own belief of their guilt. 1860in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1887A. M. Brown Anim. Alkal. 127 The patients so affected have all the appearance of toxication, and by the poisonous alkaloids—that is, the vital alkaloids or leucomaines. |