Usually means: Poisoning from fungal-contaminated grain.
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  1. ergotism: Merriam-Webster
  2. ergotism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ergotism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ergotism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ergotism: Vocabulary.com
  6. ergotism: Wordnik
  7. ergotism: Wiktionary
  8. ergotism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ergotism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ergotism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ergotism: Dictionary.com
  12. Ergotism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ergotism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ergotism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ergotism: Rhymezone
  16. Ergotism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ergotism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ergotism: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ergotism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ergotism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ergotism: Encyclopedia

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  1. ergotism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ergotism: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  8. ergotism: Medical dictionary
  9. Ergotism: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. ergotism: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ergotism)

noun:  The plant disease caused by ergot.
noun:  The effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the fungus Claviceps purpurea which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs, consisting of convulsive and gangrenous symptoms.
noun:  The use of ergot-infested grain to poison animals.
noun:  A logical deduction.

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