toxicosis
/ˌtɒksɪˈkəʊsɪs/noun
toxicosis is a noun meaning “illness due to poisoning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-O-X-I-C-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of toxicosis is toxicoses.
What does toxicosis mean?
noun
- 1
illness due to poisoning
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce toxicosis?
- /ˌtɒksɪˈkəʊsɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-toxicosis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of toxicosis
- toxicoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is toxicosis?
Toxicosis appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Toxicosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense illness due to poisoning:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | toxicose |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does toxicosis come from?
From toxic + -osis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).