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Poisoning(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Poisoning
Used for/see from:
  • n: Poisonings
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations poisoning

a disease concept: the discipline = TOXICOLOGY; general only; prefer /pois with Category D & J terms: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.57, 19.9+, 25.11.4; sometimes called "toxicoses" & often called "intoxication" in foreign literature.

A condition or physical state produced by the ingestion, injection, inhalation of or exposure to a deleterious agent.

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