Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See lead poisoning.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Lead-poisoning.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Plumbism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system
Etymologies
- From saturn, lead (obsolete), with which alchemists associated the planet Saturn.
Examples
“Lead poisoning also known as "saturnism" for its violent and demented character that is associated with the god Saturn has been identified at least before the fifth century before Christ.”
“He also ventured that Caravaggio suffered from saturnism, or lead poisoning, which may have accounted for some of the artist's irrational behavior.”
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“His secretary was to get the clangula to turpentine overside his tsuga to end the gaelic saturnism for planless lounge.”
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