321. Poison
See also 112. DEATH ; 130. DRUGS ; 232. KILLING .
- alexipharmac, alexipharmic
- a remedy for or antidote against poison or infection. — alexipharmic, adj.
- atropism
- poisoning caused by atropine or belladonna.
- barbiturism
- a condition of chronic poisoning caused by excessive use of barbiturates.
- botulism
- a disease of the nervous system caused by botulin developments in spoiled foods eaten by animals and man; a variety of bacterial food poisoning.
- cantharidism
- a toxic condition caused by the misuse of the counterirritant and diuretic cantharides.
- enriositatis
- drunkenness or intoxication from alcohol, especially as an habitual state.
- enterotoxemia
- a condition in which the blood contains toxin from the intestines.
- ergotism
- a condition caused by eating rye or some other grain infected with ergot fungus or by an overdose of an ergot medicinal agent.
- iophobia
- an abnormal fear of poisons. Cf. toxiphobia .
- mephitism
- mephitic or carbon dioxide poisoning. — mephitic, mephitical, adj.
- mithridatism
- the production of immunity against the action of a poison by consuming it regularly in gradually larger doses.
- mycetism
- any of a variety of toxic conditions produced by poisonous mush-rooms. Also mycetismus.
- phosphorism
- chronic phosphorus poisoning.
- plumbism
- an acute toxic condition caused by the absorption of lead into the body by skin contact, ingestion, or inhalation; lead poisoning. Also called saturnism .
- plutonism
- a poisoning caused by exposure to radioactive plutonium.
- ptyalism
- excessive salivation, usually associated with chronic mercury poisoning.
- rodenticide
- a substance that kills rodents.
- salicylism
- a toxic condition produced by excessive intake of salicylic acid, marked by vomiting and ringing in the ears.
- salmonellosis
- an illness caused by food tainted with certain species of salmonella bacteria.
- sapremia, sapraemia
- blood poisoning caused by putrefactive microorganisms in the bloodstream.
- saturnism
- plumbism.
- septicemia, septicaemia
- blood poisoning caused by pathogenic microorganisms and their toxic products in the bloodstream. — septicemic, septicaemic, adj.
- stibialism
- poisoning from antimony.
- strychnism
- a toxic condition caused by excessive use of strychnine.
- tabacism
- addiction to tobacco; poisoning from excessive use of tobacco. Also called tabagism, tobaccoism .
- thebaism
- Archaic. a toxic condition produced by thebaine, a derivative of opium.
- toxicology
- the branch of medical science that studies the effects, antidotes, detection, etc., of poisons. — toxicologist, n. — toxicologie, toxicological, adj.
- toxiphobia
- an abnormal fear of poisoning. Also called toxicophobia . Cf. iophobia. — toxiphobe, toxiphobiac, n.
- tyrotoxism
- poisoning caused by microbes in stale cheese or milk.
- urotoxy, urotoxia
- 1. the toxicity or toxic content of urine.
- 2. the unit used in measuring the toxicity of urine, a quantity sufficient to kill an animal weighing one kilogram. — urotoxic, adj.