sickness vs toxaemia of pregnancy

toxaemia of pregnancy vs sickness

sickness and toxaemia of pregnancy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sickness	Yes	No	No	No
toxaemia of pregnancy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, toxaemia of pregnancy is a hyponym of sickness; that is, toxaemia of pregnancy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sickness:

sickness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
toxaemia of pregnancy: an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine

Other hyponyms of sickness include condition, ague, amyloidosis, anuresis, anuria, catastrophic illness, collapse, prostration, aeroembolism, air embolism, bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism, food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder, lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism, disease, hypermotility, indisposition, ozone sickness, toxaemia, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy, growth.

sickness (noun)	toxaemia of pregnancy (noun)
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism	an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine
the state that precedes vomiting
defectiveness or unsoundness

Difference between sickness and toxaemia of pregnancy

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