alkali poisoning

1. 1.

   poisoning resulting from the ingestion of an alkali compound (as lye or ammonia)

   Broaderpoisoning

Questions about alkali poisoning

What does alkali poisoning mean?

alkali poisoning means "poisoning resulting from the ingestion of an alkali compound (as lye or ammonia)".

Is alkali poisoning a common word?

alkali poisoning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.