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Noun toxaemia has 2 senses
- toxemia of pregnancy, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxaemia - an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine
--1 is a kind of illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
--1 has particulars: eclampsia; preeclampsia, pre-eclampsia
- toxemia, toxaemia - blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood
--2 is a kind of blood poisoning, septicemia, septicaemia
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