arsenicismn.
/ɑːˈsɛnᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ɑrˈsɛnəˌsɪz(ə)m/ Medicine. Now rare.
Arsenic poisoning.
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arsenicism1842
marsh-poisoning1842
strychnism1857
chloralism1879
vanillism1884
chloralization1885
thyroidism1897
mycetismus1900
mycetism1926
fluorosis1927
mycotoxicosis1948
neurotoxicity1949
1842 E. Binns Anat. Sleep xi. 288 It is impossible to mark the order of their appearance—all the phenomena of life being apparently arrested at one fell swoop—as in gangrene and arsenicism.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 377 Characteristic phenomena of chronic arsenicism.
1959 Brit. Jrnl. Industr. Med. 16 186/1 The amount present is sufficient to produce gross evidence of arsenicism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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