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Lead poisoning   /lɛd pˈɔɪzənɪŋ/   Listen
Lead poisoning

noun
1.
Toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system.  Synonyms: plumbism, saturnism.






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"Lead poisoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... will do. The bath-room may be too cold, or too hot, or the child may be too sleepy or too wide-awake, or the parent may have lame knees or lead poisoning. And anyway, the child had ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley

... so Minturn told me, that it was lead poisoning. The fact not generally known is," he added in a lower tone, "that the cases were not confined to the Pearcy house. They had even extended to Minturn's too, although about that he said little yesterday. The estates up there adjoin, ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... widely distributed throughout the peripheral nerves, but the distribution frequently varies with the cause—the alcoholic form, for example, mainly affecting the legs, the diphtheritic form the soft palate and pharynx, and that associated with lead poisoning the forearms. The essential lesion is a degeneration of the conducting fibres of the affected nerves, and the prominent symptoms are the result of this. In alcoholic neuritis there is great tenderness of the muscles. When the legs are ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles



Words linked to "Lead poisoning" :   malady, sickness, illness, unwellness, saturnism, plumbism



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