lead poisoning

[ led ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Pathology.
1. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma.
2. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
Slang. death or injury inflicted by a bullet or shot.

lead poisoning

/ lɛd /

Also calledplumbismsaturnism acute or chronic poisoning by lead or its salts, characterized by abdominal pain, vomiting, convulsions, and coma
slang.
death or injury resulting from being shot with bullets

First recorded in 1875–80

Few reports of his mental illness discuss lead poisoning as a possible reason for his mental deterioration.

Perhaps this, not lead poisoning, is the reason for the fall of the Roman Empire.

Lead poisoning, for instance, may very well occur in others than those engaged directly in the manufacture or handling of lead.

It matters not so very much, except to the angler, if the river does suffer from lead-poisoning.

Then the former symptoms returned, she was seized with convulsions, and died in two days of acute lead poisoning.

Before she was nineteen she showed symptoms of lead poisoning—had fits, frothed at the mouth, and died.

She was employed as an enamelled ware brusher, wherein lead poisoning is encountered.

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