Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
auto-intoxication .
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- noun Alternative form of
autotoxaemia .
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Examples
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The patient is suffering from autointoxication or autotoxemia.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
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We might go much further and yet be sure of our position, and maintain that it is this national autotoxemia, this scourge of womanhood, that is to a great extent responsible for the characteristic American "vice of neurasthenia," and of the domestic infelicity and unhappiness which are so common in the large cities of this country.
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If we add to the intestinal autotoxemia of constipation, the tendency to, or vice of, indiscriminate eating and drinking -- of which the American people are particularly guilty -- we would be on firmer ground.
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Those were the years when he had many troubles: insomnia, neuralgia, and especially a trouble he called malaria, but which was largely autotoxemia.
My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922
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Those were the years when he had many troubles: insomnia, neuralgia, and especially a trouble he called malaria, but which was largely autotoxemia.
My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879
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