allantiasisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

allantiasis (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) Food poisoning (especially botulism) as a result of eating poorly cooked sausages.
   • 1912, Archives of Ophthalmology, volume 41, page 303:

     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.

   • 1924, Torald Sollmann, A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeuties and Toxicology, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, page 439:

     The cases of poisoning observed as a result of partaking of more or less tainted articles of food—sausages (botulismus かつ 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.

   • 1928, Samuel Reed Damon, Food Infections and Food Intoxications, Baltimore, MD: The Williams & Wilkins Company, page 67:

     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.

   Synonym: sausage poisoning