| Jamaica ginger paralysis |
Paralysis due to polyneuropathy that affects the muscles of the distal portions of the limbs. It is caused by drinking an alcoholic beverage called Jamaica ginger that contains the toxic substance triorthocresylphosphate
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| Jamaica ginger polyneuritis |
Jamaica ginger paralysis.
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| Jamaica ginger p. |
a form of paralysis of the extremities, especially the legs, that was seen in the 1930s after a type of Jamaican ginger extract (“jake”) was accidentally contaminated with the organophosphorus compound tri-o-tolyl phosphate and then consumed. Called also Jamaica ginger polyneuritis.
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| Jamaican vomiting s. |
a type of poisoning seen in Jamaica and nearby areas of the West Indies, due to ingestion of damaged or unripe fruit of the akee tree (Blighia sapida), which contains the toxins hypoglycine A and B; characteristics include vomiting of acute onset followed by convulsions, coma, and often death. Called also akee poisoning.
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| jamais vu |
the sensation that familiar surroundings are strangely unfamiliar; the illusion that one has never seen anything like that before.
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