ergotism

/ur-guh-tiz-uhm/US // ˈɜr gəˌtɪz əm //UK // (ˈɜːɡəˌtɪzəm) //

麦角主义,麦角病,麦角中毒,麦角风

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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Pathology.
- : a condition caused by eating rye or some other grain that is infected with ergot fungus or by taking an overdose of a medicine containing ergot, characterized by cramps, spasms, and a form of gangrene.

Thus far the foreign experience of ergotism, both medieval and modern, and of its several types.
It is almost exclusively among the peasantry that symptoms of ergotism have been seen, and among children particularly.
The first undoubted instance of ergotism in England belongs to the eighteenth century.
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.