plumbism

English

Etymology

From Latin plumbum (“lead”) +‎ -ism.

Noun

plumbism (uncountable)

1. (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

• Devon colic
• lead colic
• lead poisoning
• saturnism

Hyponyms

• painter's colic

Related terms

• plumber, plumbing

Translations

lead poisoning

• Bulgarian: сатурнизъм m (saturnizǎm), отравяне с олово (otravjane s olovo)
• Catalan: saturnisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉛中毒／铅中毒 (zh) (qiānzhòngdú)

• Dutch: loodvergiftiging (nl) f
• Finnish: lyijymyrkytys (fi)
• French: saturnisme (fr) m, colique de plomb (fr) f
• German: Bleivergiftung (de) f
• Greek: μολυβδίαση (el) f (molyvdíasi)
• Hungarian: ólommérgezés (hu)
• Italian: saturnismo (it) m
• Japanese: 鉛中毒 (なまりちゅうどく, namarichūdoku)
• Malayalam: ഈയം വിഷബാധ (īyaṁ viṣabādha)
• Polish: ołowica (pl) f
• Russian: отравле́ние свинцо́м n (otravlénije svincóm), сатурни́зм (ru) m (saturnízm)
• Spanish: saturnismo m

References

• “plumbism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.