एर्गोट संक्रमित अनाज उत्पादों के अंतर्ग्रहण द्वारा विषाक्तता; प्यास और दस्त और मतली और क्रैम्पिंग और उल्टी और असामान्य कार्डियक लय द्वारा विशेषता; गंभीर मामलों में यह अंगों के दौरे और गैंग्रीन का कारण बन सकता है

Noun:

ओषधि के रूप में ठोंठी युक्त अनाज के दाने, कुकुरमुत्ते के कारण उतपन्न एक अन्न-रोग, एक धान्य-रोग, ठोंठी,

ergotism's Usage Examples:

Traces of ergot were found in his bloodstream as in yours, but not to the degree that should cause hallucinogenic ergotism.

There were two types of ergotism.

As it is practically impossible to reproduce the symptoms of ergotism nowadays, whether experimentally in the lower animals, or when the drug is being administered to a human being for some therapeutic purpose, it is believed that the symptoms of ergotism were rendered possible only by the semi-starvation which must have ensued from the use of such rye-bread; for the grain disappears as the fungus develops.

Chronic poisoning, or ergotism, used frequently to occur amongst the poor fed on rye infected with the Claviceps.

The last-known "epidemic" of ergotism occurred in Lorraine and Burgundy in the year 1816.

ergotism's Meaning':

poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products; characterized by thirst and diarrhea and nausea and cramping and vomiting and abnormal cardiac rhythms; in severe cases it can cause seizures and gangrene of the limbs

Synonyms:

toxic condition, intoxication, poisoning,

Antonyms:

soberness,