A disorder resulting from absorption of the waste products of metabolism, decomposed matter from the intestine, or the products of dead and infected tissue as in gangrene. SYN: autotoxicosis, endogenic toxicosis, enterotoxication, enterotoxism, intestinal intoxication, self-poisoning.
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au·to·in·tox·i·ca·tion -in-.täk-sə-'kā-shən n poisoning by toxic substances produced within the body
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n.
poisoning by a toxin formed within the body.
Medical dictionary. 2011.