food poisoning

English

Noun

food poisoning (usually uncountable, plural food poisonings)

1. (pathology, bacteriology) Any food-borne disease, such as salmonella, that typically causes diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, fever and abdominal cramps.

   Synonyms: (archaic) bromatotoxism, foodborne illness, food-borne disease

   Hyponym: sitotoxism

Translations

any food-borne disease

• Afrikaans: voedselvergiftiging
• Azerbaijani: qida zəhərlənməsi
• Catalan: toxiinfecció alimentària f, intoxicació alimentària f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食物中毒 (zh) (shíwù zhòngdú)

• Czech: alimentární onemocnění n
• Danish: madforgiftning (da) c, fødevareforgiftning (da) c
• Dutch: voedselvergiftiging (nl) f
• Estonian: toidumürgitus
• Finnish: ruokamyrkytys (fi)
• French: intoxication alimentaire f, toxi-infection alimentaire f
• German: Lebensmittelvergiftung (de) f
• Greek: τροφική δηλητηρίαση f (trofikí dilitiríasi)
• Hungarian: ételmérgezés (hu)
• Icelandic: matareitrun (is) f
• Irish: nimhiú bia m
• Japanese: 食中毒 (ja) (しょくちゅうどく, shokuchūdoku)
• Korean: 식중독(食中毒) (ko) (sikjungdok)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: matforgiftning m or f

  Nynorsk: matforgifting f

• Polish: zatrucie pokarmowe (pl) n
• Portuguese: intoxicação alimentar f, intoxicação gastrintestinal f
• Russian: пищево́е отравле́ние n (piščevóje otravlénije)
• Spanish: intoxicación alimentaria f, toxiinfección alimentaria f
• Swedish: matförgiftning (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gıda zehirlenmesi
• Ukrainian: харчове́ отру́єння n (xarčové otrújennja)
• Vietnamese: ngộ độc thực phẩm
• Welsh: gwenwyn bwyd m

Further reading

• “food poisoning”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “food poisoning”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “food poisoning”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “food poisoning”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Definition & Facts of Food Poisoning, www.niddk.nih.gov
• Food poisoning, mayoclinic.org
• food poisoning, foodborne illness, foodborne disease at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.