Hypertoxic

Quick meaning: Hypertoxic is an adjective meaning (rare, toxicology) Excessively toxic.

Meaning

(rare, toxicology) Excessively toxic.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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?

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hypotoxic, toxic, toxicophagous, hyperoxemic, hyperphysiologic, hematoxic.

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