单词 | painter's colic |
释义 | > as lemmaspainter's colic painter's colic n. (also painters' colic) mercury or (esp.) lead poisoning caused by handling toxic pigments. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in back back-ache?c1225 ripples1568 lumbago1684 ripplec1700 bellon1794 rachialgia1807 painter's colic1822 notalgia1833 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 189 House-painters..who are, often, too little attentive to personal cleanliness, are to the present hour so frequently affected by it [i.e. colic of Pitou], as to give it the still more general name of Painter's colic. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 7 ‘Occupation neuroses’ such as painter's colic or mercurial tremor. 1992 Occupational Med. 7 369 Coal miners' nystagmus, scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, phossy jaw, hatters' shakes, painters' colic, potters' rot, [etc.]. 1996 J. Grenfell-Hill Growing up in Wales 175 When the War started in 1939 I went into the munitions factory in Bridgend... I painted the shells. But the lead in the paint gave me painter's colic. < as lemmas |
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