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(pathology, archaic) Food poisoning (especially botulism) as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages..
In the first case, a child of 3 years, it was preceded a few months before by an alimentary intoxication, allantiasis; in the second case there was no history of an infectious disease.
The cases of poisoning observed as a result of partaking of more or less tainted articles of food—sausages (botulismus and allantiasis), meat, milk, ice-cream, cheese, corned beef, etc., and with some specimens of mussels and oysters—are due to the development of ptomain products.
The classical reports of outbreaks of sausage poisoning in Würtemburg by Justinus Kerner (1), a Schwabian poet and physician, are believed to refer undoubtedly to the toxic syndrome of allantiasis, or botulism, as it is now called.
Use allantiasis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Allantiasis means (pathology, archaic) Food poisoning (especially botulism) as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages..
Common synonyms include sausage poisoning.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the first case, a child of 3 years, it was preceded a few months before by an alimentary intoxication, allantiasis; in the second case there was no history of an infectious disease.
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