nitritoid reaction
noun
ni·tri·toid reaction
ˈnī-trə-ˌtȯid-
: an acute reaction that sometimes occurs to certain drugs (as gold sodium thiomalate) and that resembles poisoning by nitrite especially in the presence of flushing, tachycardia, and faintness
called also nitritoid crisis
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