combining form, repr. TOXI- or TOXO-2 before a vowel. ǁ Toxæmia, also anglicized toxemy [Gr. αἶμα blood, after anæmia, etc.], a morbid condition of the blood caused by a toxin; blood-poisoning; hence Toxæmic a., pertaining to or affected with toxæmia. Toxalbumin, also -en, a poisonous or pathogenic albumin or protein produced by bacteria; a protein toxin; hence Toxalbumic a., pertaining to or caused by a toxalbumin; so Toxalbumose, a poisonous albumose. Toxamine, a poisonous amine. Toxanæmia, anæmia caused by the action of a poison, usually a ptomaine.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., *Toxæmia,… a contaminated state of the blood, as in syphilis; poisoned blood; toxemy.
1881. Trans. Obstet. Soc. Lond., XXII. 283. There was a dangerous state of toxæmia.
1876. Bristowe, The. & Pract. Med. (1878), 124. Which so often … cause *toxæmic symptoms.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 418. The post-febrile insanities are divisible into two classes—the purely anæmic, and the toxæmic.
1902. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sc., V. 33. As the effects of other chemical or *toxalbumic poisons manifest themselves as a psychosis.
1890. Pall Mall G., 26 April, 6/3. *Toxalbumen is said to be the excretion of a bacillus of diphtheria.
1892. Pop. Sc. Monthly, XLI. 633. It neutralizes the potent toxalbumin of tetanus in test-tube cultures.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 767. Brieger and Fränkel then described a proteid poison which they obtained from cultures of the tetanus bacilli and named tox-albumin.
1902. R. Muir, in Encycl. Brit., XXVI. 64/2. Such a powder gives a proteid reaction, and is no doubt largely composed of albumnoses, hence the name *toxalbumoses has been applied.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 735. Certain specimens of cheese contain a *toxamine, termed by its discoverer, Professor Vaughan, ‘tyrotoxicon.’
1891. Cent. Dict., *Toxanemia, Toxanæmia.
1899. Syd. Soc. Lex., Toxanæmia, Toxanemia, anæmia caused by the actions of ptomaines.
