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toxemic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tox-emic
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

affected by or otherwise relating to toxemia, organically poisoned

Etymology

From toxemia (“organic blood poisoning”) + -ic, from New Latin toxaemia, from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón, “poison, toxin”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more toxemic (comparative) most toxemic (superlative) toxaemic (alternative, UK) toxæmic (alternative, obsolete)

Rhymes With

systemic ischemic anemic polemic epistemic glycemic phonemic anaemic racemic ischaemic leukemic uremic

Questions

What does toxemic mean?
affected by or otherwise relating to toxemia, organically poisoned
Where does toxemic come from?
From toxemia (“organic blood poisoning”) + -ic, from New Latin toxaemia, from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón, “poison, toxin”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

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