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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Lead-poisoning.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Plumbism.

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  • noun medicine lead poisoning

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

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From saturn, lead (obsolete), with which alchemists associated the planet Saturn.]

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