mephitism

(ˈmɛfɪˌtɪzəm)

(Environmental Science) poisonous air or a foul smell

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mephitism

mephitic or carbon dioxide poisoning. — mephitic, mephitical, adj.

See also: Poison

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The accumulated noxiousness of miasmic exhalations, which, by virtue of being related through kinship and heredity, were of the same nature, constituted in itself a morbid menace....[E]very house had both its own odor and its 'specific endemic diseases,' kept alive by the mephitism of the walls" (Corbin 163).

Miasmas in Eden: Atmosphere, History and Narrative in The House of the Seven Gables and "Rappaccini's Daughter"

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