food poisoning

What does food poisoning mean?

food poisoning means "illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food".

What is another word for food poisoning?

Close synonyms include gastrointestinal disorder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is food poisoning a common word?

food 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for food poisoning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.