Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A diseased condition resulting from poisoning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A morbid condition produced by the action of a poison; a chronic poisoning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun toxicology illness due to
poisoning
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Examples
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A more severe reaction is tick toxicosis, which is a type of poisoning.
The Examiner Home RSS Ken White 2010
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A more severe reaction is tick toxicosis, which is a type of poisoning.
The Examiner Home RSS Ken White 2010
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Fescue toxicosis occurs when tall fescue, a common pasture and hay forage for horses throughout the United States and Canada, is infected with a fungal endophyte (a plant parasite living within another organism).
TheHorse.com News 2009
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Add in personal self enrichment from expense fiddles, petty corruption and barefaced lying to that toxicosis.
Archive 2008-11-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Add in personal self enrichment from expense fiddles, petty corruption and barefaced lying to that toxicosis.
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Not satisfied with fighting World War VII on just the Iraq and domestic fronts, the 101st Fighting Keyboarders' John Hinderaker risked carpal tunnel syndrome and Cheeto toxicosis to drop a full load of swagger on the Islamunists of Lebanon, Friday:
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Already there are genetic probes available to detect carriers of cystinuria in Newfoundland dogs; Von Willebrand's disease, a bleeding disorder, in poodles and Manchester terriers; and copper toxicosis in Bedlington terriers.
The Truth About Dogs 1999
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Already there are genetic probes available to detect carriers of cystinuria in Newfoundland dogs; Von Willebrand's disease, a bleeding disorder, in poodles and Manchester terriers; and copper toxicosis in Bedlington terriers.
The Truth About Dogs 1999
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Deoxynivalenol wheat, acute human toxicosis, internal
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OSTROWSKI, S.R. and OLIVER, M.N. (1987) Oak toxicosis in cattle in Northern California: clinical and pathological findings.
Chapter 5 1994
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