coturnism
English
Noun
coturnism (uncountable)
- An illness in humans caused by eating quail that have eaten poisonous plants.
- 1990, H.O. Lancaster, Expectations of Life: A Study in the Demography, Statistics, and History of World Mortality:
- Jelliffe and Jelliffe (1982) have chapters dealing with natural plant poisonings, for example, aflatoxicosis, coturnism, Ackee poisoning, Lathyrism, Djenkol bean, and mushrooms.
- 2012, E. F. Jelliffe, Adverse Effects of Foods, page 56:
- Another major question for consideration is why are not all quail toxic, or phrased a different way, why are there not more reported cases of coturnism?
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