lead poisoning

1. 1.

   toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system

   Synonymsplumbismsaturnism

   Broaderillness

Questions about lead poisoning

What does lead poisoning mean?

lead poisoning means "toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system".

What is another word for lead poisoning?

Close synonyms include plumbism, saturnism. 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 poisoning a common word?

lead 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.