toxemia of pregnancy
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[edit]Noun
[edit]toxemia of pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural toxemias of pregnancy)
- (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.