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.