noun. Poisoning caused by consuming ergot-infected grain or grain products, or from excessive use of drugs containing ergot.

noun. A logical inference; a conclusion.

noun. The spur of rye; ergot.

noun. The morbid state induced by the excessive ingestion of ergot, as from the use of spurred or ergoted rye as food. Spasmodic and gangrenous forms are distinguished.

noun. Logical reasoning; ratiocination.

noun. A logical deduction.

noun. A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

noun. The effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs.

noun. poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products; characterized by thirst and diarrhea and nausea and cramping and vomiting and abnormal cardiac rhythms; in severe cases it can cause seizures and gangrene of the limbs

"The condition called ergotism or St. Anthony’s fire, common in medieval Europe, was caused by a mycotoxin produced by a mold that grew in rye bread."