Mérgezésen

Mérgezésen is the inessive form of the Hungarian noun mérgezés, meaning poisoning. It designates the state or context of being poisoned, or the occurrence of poisoning in a given situation. The form is primarily found in formal medical, toxicological, forensic, and public-health language, as well as in journalistic reporting about poisoning events or conditions.

In use, mérgezésen appears with verbs that express experiencing or being affected by the condition. A common construction is mérgezésen szenved, meaning “to suffer from poisoning.” The plural form mérgezéseken can refer to multiple poisoning cases or groups affected by poisoning.

Grammatical notes: mérgezésen is the singular inessive case of mérgezés. It follows regular Hungarian case-formation rules, with the suffix -en attached to the stem mérgezés. The term is often encountered alongside related terms such as mérgezés (poisoning) and toxicology in clinical descriptions, case reports, and epidemiological summaries.

Etymology: mérgezés derives from mérgező (poisonous) plus the nominalizing -és, forming a noun that denotes the act or process of poisoning; mérgezésen marks the inessive case.

See also: mérgezés, mérgező, toxicology, poisoning.