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Definition of Carbon monoxide poisoning
1. Noun. A toxic condition that results from inhaling and absorbing carbon monoxide gas. "Carbon monoxide combines with hemoglobin and displaces oxygen in the blood"
Medical Definition of Carbon monoxide poisoning
1. Toxic asphyxiation due to the displacement of oxygen from oxyhemoglobin by carbon monoxide. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Literary usage of Carbon monoxide poisoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"carbon monoxide poisoning. The fatal effects often produced by this gas (as in
accidents from burning charcoal stoves in small close rooms, or where there ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Guinea-pigs were kept in an atmosphere The Hematology of Carbon Monoxide
Poisoning.—It is known that carbon monoxide has an affinity for the hemoglobin of ..."
3. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1992)
"However, since this redness may not occur, carbon monoxide poisoning cannot ...
Because carbon monoxide poisoning interferes with the delivery of oxygen to ..."
4. Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene by George Martin Kober, William Clinton Hanson (1916)
"The subject of carbon monoxide poisoning is an intricate one. ... Acute carbon
monoxide poisoning is that condition in which the person affected has been ..."
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