allantiasis

Noun

allantiasis (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Food poisoning (especially botulism) as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages.
   • In the first case, a child of 3 years, it was preceded a few months before by an alimentary intoxication, allantiasis; in the second case there was no history of an infectious disease.1912, Archives of Ophthalmology, volume 41, page 303
   • The cases of poisoning observed as a result of partaking of more or less tainted articles of food—sausages (botulismus and allantiasis), meat, milk, ice-cream, cheese, corned beef, etc., and with some specimens of mussels and oysters—are due to the development of ptomain products.1924, Torald Sollmann, A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeuties and Toxicology, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, page 439

   Synonyms:

   sausage poisoning