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English
Etymology
From hyper- + toxic.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ.pə(ɹ)ˈtɒk.sɪk/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ.pə(ɹ)ˈtɑk.sɪk/
- Hyphenation: hy‧per‧tox‧ic
- Rhymes: -ɒksɪk
Adjective
hypertoxic (not comparable)
- (rare, toxicology) Excessively toxic.
1823, The Lancet, J. Onwhyn, page 971:The hypertoxic case has, as a rule, a characteristically poor rash, and in estimates of the result of treatment too much attention need not be paid to what happens to the rash; a plentiful distribution of the toxin into the cutaneous tissues probably acts as a safety-valve.
1829, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, American Journal of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, page 468:In a paper read before the Academiè royale de Medècine de Belgique (Procès-verbal, April, 1892), Dr. Masius shows that in doses generally considered as hypertoxic, digitalis may be taken not only without inconvenience, but that such massive doses will surely and rapidly prevent the dangers arising from cardiac weakness and from a high temperature?
1832, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Irish Journal of Medical Science, Dublin, page 153:We often find in insanity an inverse toxicity of the urine, and the blood, in mania especially, is as much more hypertoxic as the urine is hypotoxic.
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