A pathological or toxic condition caused by poisoning or overdose from gelsemine, an alkaloid from the yellow jasmine plant.
From 'gelsemium' (the plant genus) + '-emia' (blood condition, medical suffix). Created as a clinical term for poisoning from gelsemine toxins.
Gelsemia is a real diagnosis from the era when doctors catalogued every possible plant poisoning—yellow jasmine was beautiful but deadly, and gelsemia described the specific sickness it caused!
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