"lead poisoning" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-lead poisoning.ogg Forms: lead poisonings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} lead poisoning (countable and uncountable, plural lead poisonings)
  1. (pathology) A chronic intoxication produced by the absorption of lead into the body, characterized by severe colicky pains, a dark line along the gums, and local muscular paralysis. Wikidata QID: Q110315 Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: plumbism (english: medical), saturnism [archaic] Related terms: lead sandwich [slang] Translations (Translations): сатурнизъм (saturnizǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), отравяне с олово (otravjane s olovo) (Bulgarian), saturnisme [masculine] (Catalan), 鉛中毒 /铅中毒 (qiānzhòngdú) (Chinese Mandarin), loodvergiftiging [feminine] (Dutch), lyijymyrkytys (Finnish), saturnisme [masculine] (French), colique de plomb [feminine] (French), Bleivergiftung [feminine] (German), μολυβδίαση (molyvdíasi) [feminine] (Greek), ólommérgezés (Hungarian), saturnismo [masculine] (Italian), 鉛中毒 (namarichūdoku) (alt: なまりちゅうどく) (Japanese), ഈയം വിഷബാധ (īyaṁ viṣabādha) (Malayalam), ołowica [feminine] (Polish), отравле́ние свинцо́м (otravlénije svincóm) [neuter] (Russian), сатурни́зм (saturnízm) [masculine] (Russian), saturnismo [masculine] (Spanish)
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  2. (slang) A gunshot wound. Tags: countable, slang, uncountable Synonyms: see bullet hole
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms (disease): Devon colic (english: from lead-lined cider presses), painter's colic (english: among workers using lead-based paints) Meronyms (disease): lead colic, saturnia, lead line, wrist drop, carpoptosis, saturnine
Disambiguation of 'disease': 0 0 Disambiguation of 'disease': 0 0

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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bleivergiftung"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "lang_code": "el",
      "roman": "molyvdíasi",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μολυβδίαση"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "ólommérgezés"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saturnismo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "なまりちゅうどく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "namarichūdoku",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "鉛中毒"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "lang_code": "ml",
      "roman": "īyaṁ viṣabādha",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "ഈയം വിഷബാധ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ołowica"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "otravlénije svincóm",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "отравле́ние свинцо́м"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "saturnízm",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сатурни́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saturnismo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lead poisoning"
}

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