lead colic

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   symptom of chronic lead poisoning and associated with obstinate constipation

   Synonymspainter's colic

   Broadercolic

Questions about lead colic

What does lead colic mean?

lead colic means "symptom of chronic lead poisoning and associated with obstinate constipation".

What is another word for lead colic?

Close synonyms include painter's colic. 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 lead colic a common word?

lead colic 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.