Lead Poisoning

Definition: Lead Poisoning

Lead Poisoning

Noun

1. Toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system.

Specialty Definitions: Lead Poisoning

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Disease caused by the gradual accumulation of a significant body burden of lead(1). Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Lead poisoning

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lead poisoning is a condition caused by increased levels of blood serum lead levels. The average person has less than 10 micrograms per decaliter, or 10 parts per million, ppm, of lead in their blood serum. People who have been exposed to an unusual amount of lead will have lead serum levels higher than 20 ppm - most clinical symptoms of lead poisoning begin at around 100 ppm. The symptoms of lead poisoning include reduced IQ and, in extreme cases, seizure.

Outside of occupational hazards, the majority of lead poisoning occurs in children under age twelve. The main sources of poisoning are ingestion of lead contaminated soil (this is less of a problem in countries that no longer have leaded gasoline) and lead based paints. This is particularly a problem in older houses where the sweet tasting lead paint is likely to chip.

Once in the body, lead is biologically inactive – its toxic properties come from lead's ability to mimic other biologically important metals, the most notable of which are iron or zinc. Lead is able to bind to and interact with the same proteins and molecules as iron, but after replacing iron, those molecules function differently and fail to carry out the same reactions.

Most lead poisoning symptoms are thought to occur by interfering with an essential enzyme Delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase, or ALAD. ALAD is a zinc binding protein which is important in the biosynthesis of heme, the cofactor found in hemoglobin. Genetic mutations of ALAD cause the disease porphyria, a disease which was highlighted in the movie The Madness of King George.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lead poisoning."

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Synonyms: Lead Poisoning

Synonyms: plumbism (n), saturnism (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lead Poisoning

English words defined with "lead poisoning": chelation ♦ lead colic, lead line ♦ mercury poisoning ♦ painter's colic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lead poisoning": Bacillus cereus ♦ lead hem, lead poisoning encephalopathy, Lead Poisoning, Nervous System. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lead Poisoning

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Lead poisoning. (Back to the Future Part II; writing credit: Ronnie Cramer)
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Commercial Usage: Lead Poisoning

Domain	Title
Books	Diagnosis & treatment of lead poisoning : papers (reference) Lead poisoning in animal models : papers (reference) Sub-clinical lead poisoning (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Lead Poisoning

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	Perimeter Charts, Showing the Fields Both For White and For Colours, in Cases of Central Amblyopia and Lead Poisoning.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Lead Poisoning

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Acute lead poisoning is another potential risk for methamphetamine abusers. (references)
		They also may be used to check for underlying problems such as infections, lead poisoning, anemia, and diabetes that may be causing or triggering the seizures. (references)
		Production errors may therefore result in methamphetamine contaminated with lead. There have been documented cases of acute lead poisoning in intravenous methamphetamine abusers. (references)
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Expression: Lead Poisoning

Expression using "lead poisoning": lead poisoning encephalopathy. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lead Poisoning

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
lead poisoning	510
lead poisoning symptom	80
lead poisoning lawyer	45
lead poisoning attorney	40
lead poisoning treatment	38
lead poisoning in child	26
lead poisoning information	24
lead poisoning law	24
info on lead poisoning	23
adult lead poisoning	20
lead poisoning effects	13
cure lead poisoning	10
lead poisoning prevention	10
lead poisoning sign	9
lead poisoning child	8
lead poisoning sign soldering	8
lead poisoning in adult	5
childhood lead poisoning	5
lead poisoning symptom adult	4
lead poisoning presentation	4
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Modern Translations: Lead Poisoning

Language		Translations for "lead poisoning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		оловно отравяне (plumbism). (various references)

Danish		saturnisme (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism), plumbisme (plumbism), blyforgiftning (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism). (various references)

Dutch		loodziekte (plumbism), loodvergiftiging (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism), loodintoxicatie (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism), saturnismus (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism), saturnisme (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism). (various references)

French		saturnisme chronique (lead intoxication), saturnisme, maladie du plomb, intoxication par le plomb-tétraéthyle. (various references)

German		bleivergiftung (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism). (various references)

Greek		μολυβδίαση (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism), δηλητηρίαση δια μολύβδου (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism). (various references)

Hungarian		ólommérgezés (saturnine poisoning, saturnism). (various references)

Italian		saturnismo (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鉛�' , 鉛中�' . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なまりちゅうどく, え�"どく (smoke pollution), え�"ちゅうどく. (various references)

Manx		pyshoonaght leoaie. (various references)

Pig Latin		eadlay oisoningpay

Portuguese		saturnismo crónico (lead intoxication, plumbism, saturnism), saturnismo (plumbism, saturnism). (various references)

Romanian		saturnism (painter's colic, plumbism, saturnism). (various references)

Spanish		saturnismo (plumbism, saturnism), plumbismo (plumbism). (various references)

Turkish		kurşun zehirlenmesi (plumbism). (various references)
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Anagrams: Lead Poisoning

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-p-s"
	-3 letters: apiologies, apologised, despoiling, penalising.
	-4 letters: alongside, anglepods, apologies, apologise, deplaning, diplegias, gliadines, islanding, loosening, napoleons, opinioned, palinodes, panelings, pangolins, pignolias, pinelands, plainsong, pleadings, poisoning, polonaise, sapogenin, spindling.
	-5 letters: agonised, aliening, anginose, anglepod, anilines, annelids, dealings, deponing, deposing, diagnose, dialings, diplegia, dipnoans, dongolas, eanlings, eidolons, elapsing, eloining, enisling, ensiling, gasoline, gliadine, gliadins, glonoins, gondolas, gonidial, indigens, indigoes, iodopsin, ionogens, isogonal, isopodan, ladening, landings, leadings, leanings, lindanes, lionised, loadings, loanings, napoleon, nonideal, nonsolid, noodling, opalines, openings, opinions, palinode, paneling, pangolin, pedaling, pignolia, pignolis, pindling, pineland, pinioned, plaining, pleading, pleasing, ploidies, pogonias, poinding, poisoned, poolside, sandling, sandpile, saponine, sepaloid, sideling, sidelong, signaled, snailing, sneaping, snooding, snooling, snooping, solanine, solenoid, solidago, spangled, speaning, speiling, spending, spieling, splining, spoilage, spoiling, spooling, spooning.
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