plumbism

English

Etymology

From Latin plumbum (“lead”) +‎ -ism.

Noun

plumbism (uncountable)

(medicine) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. Symptoms include lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop.

Synonyms

Translations

lead poisoning

Catalan: saturnisme (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鉛中毒 (zh), 铅中毒 (zh) (qiānzhòngdú)
Dutch: loodvergiftiging f
Finnish: lyijymyrkytys (fi)
French: saturnisme (fr) m
German: Bleivergiftung (de) f

Hungarian: ólommérgezés (hu)
Italian: saturnismo (it) m
Japanese: 鉛中毒 (なまりちゅうどく, namarichūdoku)
Polish: ołowica f
Russian: отравле́ние свинцо́м n (otravlénije svincóm), сатурни́зм (ru) m (saturnízm)
Spanish: saturnismo m

References

plumbism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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