toxaemia
toxaemia is the alternative spelling of toxemia.
Meaning of toxemia
Noun
toxemia (countable and uncountable, plural toxemias)
- Blood poisoning; adverse reaction to toxic byproducts of systemic infection.
- Synonyms:
- blood poisoning, septicemia
Forms of toxaemia
| plural | toxaemias |
|---|---|
| alternative US | toxemia |
| alternative form (obsolete) | toxæmia |
Origin of toxaemia
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón, “poison, toxin”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Words formed from toxaemia
Words that rhyme with toxaemia
- epistemic
- phonemic
- anemic
- asemic
- bimorphemic
- graphemic
- hemic
- limnemic
- aglycemic
- anaemic
- antiglycemic
- blastemic
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- cachaemic
- cachemic
- calcaemic
- calcemic
- cenemic
- cheremic
- cholaemic
- chronemic
- classemic
- copraemic
- copremic
- dimorphemic
- dysaemic
- dyscalcemic
- dyssemic
- edemic
- emic
- eucalcemic
- extraischemic
- fungaemic
- fungemic
- glycaemic
- glycemic
- haemic
- heteromorphemic
- hydraemic
- hydremic
- hypercalcemic
- hypercupremic
- hyperferremic
- hyperkalaemic
- hyperkalemic
- hypervolemic
- hypocalcemic
- hypoferremic
- hypokalemic
- hypovolemic
- ischaemic
- ischemic
- leucaemic
- leucemic
- leukaemic
- leukemic
- lexemic
- lipaemic
- lipemic
- lithaemic
- lithemic
Questions about toxaemia
- What is toxaemia the alternative spelling of?
- Toxaemia is the alternative spelling of toxemia.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: toxaemia (page history and authors); toxemia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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