lead poisoning
Pathology.
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.
Slang. death or injury inflicted by a bullet or shot.
Origin of lead poisoning
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How to use lead poisoning in a sentence
Few reports of his mental illness discuss lead poisoning as a possible reason for his mental deterioration.
Wrestler Mark Schultz Hates the ‘Sickening and Insulting Lies’ of ‘Foxcatcher’ | Rich Goldstein | December 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps 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.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIt 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.
The People of the Abyss | Jack London
Before she was nineteen she showed symptoms of lead poisoning—had fits, frothed at the mouth, and died.
The People of the Abyss | Jack LondonShe was employed as an enamelled ware brusher, wherein lead poisoning is encountered.
The People of the Abyss | Jack London
British Dictionary definitions for lead poisoning
/ (lɛd) /
Also called: plumbism, saturnism acute or chronic poisoning by lead or its salts, characterized by abdominal pain, vomiting, convulsions, and coma
US slang death or injury resulting from being shot with bullets
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