自じ家か中ちゅう毒どく症しょう

noun

autointoxication

Medical term for poisoning by substances produced within the body. In Japanese pediatrics, historically associated with a condition now better understood as cyclic vomiting syndrome.

• 自じ家か中ちゅう毒どく症しょうは、体たい内ないで生しょうじた毒どく素そによって引ひき起おこされる状じょう態たいを指さす。

  Autointoxication refers to a condition caused by toxins produced within the body.

noun

cyclic vomiting syndrome

In modern Japanese medicine, this term is often used synonymously with 周期性嘔吐症 (cyclic vomiting syndrome), especially in pediatric contexts.

See also: 周期性嘔吐症

• 小しょう児に科かでは、自じ家か中ちゅう毒どく症しょうは周しゅう期き性せい嘔おう吐と症しょうと同おなじ意い味みで使つかわれることが多おおい。

  In pediatrics, 自家中毒症 is often used interchangeably with cyclic vomiting syndrome.