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lead poisoning

In medicine, toxic condition due to the ingestion of lead. Symptoms include loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, colic, anaemia, and nerve damage. It is treated by the removal of the source of lead and by chelating agents (see chelate) to remove the lead from the body. Most cases today are chronic and occur in workers at smelters or scrap yards, but lead poisoning used to occur more commonly because of the use of domestic lead-based paints and lead water pipes.
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