Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a peculiar derangement of the system produced by the excessive use of iodine or its salts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology
iodine poisoning
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Examples
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Chronic poisoning (iodism) is characterized by coryza, salivation, and lachrymation, frontal headache, loss of appetite, marked mental depression, acne of the face and chest, and a petechial eruption on the limbs.
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The treatment is kept up until the symptoms of iodism develop.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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The size of the dose depends on the size of the animal and its susceptibility to iodism.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Hereditary and constitutional taints of sycosis, scrofula, psora, syphilis; mercurianism, cinchonism, iodism and many other forms of chronic poisoning.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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