painter's colic

1. 1.

   symptom of chronic lead poisoning and associated with obstinate constipation

   Synonymslead colic

   Broadercolic

Questions about painter's colic

What does painter's colic mean?

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

What is another word for painter's colic?

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

painter's 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.