nitritoid reaction

nitritoid reaction
ni·tri·toid reaction 'nī-trə-.tȯid- n an acute reaction that sometimes occurs to certain drugs (as gold sodium thiomalate) and that resembles poisoning by nitrite esp. in the presence of flushing, tachycardia, and faintness called also nitritoid crisis

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