Meanings
- archaicuncountablemedicineFood 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.
1912, Archives of Ophthalmology, volume 41, page 3032 more examples
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.
1924, Torald Sollmann, A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeuties and Toxicology, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, page 439The 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.
1928, Samuel Reed Damon, Food Infections and Food Intoxications, Baltimore, MD: The Williams & Wilkins Company, page 67Synonyms: sausage poisoning
Synonyms & antonyms
nounFood poisoning (especially botulism) as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages.
Origin
Translations
German Wurstvergiftung
- Wurstvergiftungfood poisoning as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages
Greek αλλαντίαση
- αλλαντίαση (allantíasi)food poisoning as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages
Italian allantiasi
- allantiasifood poisoning as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages
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