allantiasis
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Food poisoning (especially botulism) as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages.
Archaic; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From allant- + -iasis.