ERGOTISM
\ˈɜːɡətˌɪzəm], \ˈɜːɡətˌɪzəm], \ˈɜː_ɡ_ə_t_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of ERGOTISM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Noah Webster.
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Poisoning caused by ingesting ergotized grain or by the misdirected or excessive use of ergot as a medicine.
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By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The effect of the action of the ergot of rye on the human system; disease induced by the presence of it in the food.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In med., a diseased state of body caused by eating diseased or unripe grain, especially the poisonous effects resulting from eating bread made from spurred rye.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Poisoning by ergot. An affection produced by the use of spurred rye. At times, the symptoms are limited to vertigo, spasms, and convulsions. See Convulsio oerealis. Most commonly, there is torpor with numbness of the hands and feet, which waste away, lose sensation and the power of motion, and separate from the body by dry gangrene
By Robley Dunglison
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Chronic ergot-poisoning.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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