(n.) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the in vitro inhibition test the same degree of inhibition of red cell P5N activity seen in hereditary red cell P5N deficiency was obtained by using a lead concentration 200--400 times higher than the lead levels detected in human plumbism.
(2) Plumbism neuropathy have the character of subclinical lesions not impairing motor skill.
(3) The case of a patient suffering from plumbism is described.
(4) These "lead bands," while a constant finding, are used as additional laboratory evidence to diagnose plumbism.
(5) Matched female plumbism subjects reported a higher proportion of spontaneous abortion or stillbirths among pregnancies (relative risk = 1.60, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.6-4.0) and a higher proportion of learning disabilities among school-age children (relative risk = 3.0, 95% CI = 0.9-10.2) in comparison with their controls.
(6) Therefore, the degree of lead poisoning can't be classified by the values of FEP, ZPP among plumbism.
(7) The factors leading to plumbism, its evaluation, and treatment are reviewed.
(8) Nevertheless, the EDTA mobilization test identified 2 patients with occult plumbism in this group of patients.
(9) Among the various indicators of lead's critical (or first) effect on hemoglobin synthesis, erythrocyte protoporphyrin potentially is the most practical for monitoring children at high risk for plumbism.
(10) This concern arises, in part, because current screening data show that 5 to 10% of the children tested recently in the United States have a degree of increase in lead absorption sufficient to cause metabolic derangement in heme synthesis, but insufficient, with rare exception, to cause classical acute clinical symptoms of plumbism.
(11) These results, as well as others, raise questions concerning the validity of relying exclusively on Pb-B in the clinical management of groups such as young children in old houses and lead-exposed workmen who are at increased risk for plumbism; The results suggest that chelatable lead is most closely related to lead's inhibitory effect on heme synthesis and that, biologically, it may serve as the best "chemical biopsy" of soft tissue lead concentration; A simple AAS method for measureing chelatable lead in urine is described; A new wet digestion technique which is compatible with ASV is also described.
(12) Pica was more prevalent among children with plumbism.
(13) One matched subject with plumbism had grossly abnormal renal function and an elevated blood lead level of an unclear cause.
(14) Among the remaining 21 matched pairs, the risk of hypertension was significantly higher in subjects with plumbism (relative risk, 7.0; 95% confidence interval, 1.2 to 42.3).
(15) The different clinical symptomatology, effects on hemoglobin synthesis, and response to chelation therapy are all in keeping with the view that organolead poisoning is a separate and distinct toxicologic entity from that of classical elemental lead poisoning or "plumbism".
(16) The criteria for injury remained climical plumbism.
(17) Our study also clearly demonstrated that 4 of 6 patients with renal failure who developed gout de novo had underlying plumbism.
(18) Its investigational use in the United States has been limited to the treatment of men with occupational plumbism.
(19) Screening for lead poisoning among her immediate family members identified two others with different manifestations of plumbism.
(20) He was first seen 16 months later with symptoms, signs, and laboratory values that were consistent with the diagnosis of plumbism.
Typesetter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, Dreyer's adoptive parents, Carl and Marie Dreyer - a freethinking leftist typesetter and a wife who already had an illegitimate daughter by another man - never set foot inside a church unless they had to, and their adopted son was a non-believer who attended occasional services at a French reform church, but only in order to teach himself the language.
(2) Social work with adults will never join the typesetter in the occupational dustbin of history, but the quality of service and sometimes, the very lives of vulnerable adults, are at stake.
(3) Every class of society was represented, from the Scottish nobility to the typesetters who worked alongside Snare in Reading and remembered his life-or-death passion for the portrait.
(4) Take the case of Andy Forbes, a former typesetter and computer programmer.
(5) The study population was 1261 typesetters, employed in 1961 and followed until the end of 1984; this was a cohort of convenience, assembled as a comparison for a different study.
(6) "It's too early to say whether action will be taken against the typesetters, but we will still use them.
(7) HarperCollins, which runs the 4th Estate imprint, said the crucial mistake happened when a small Scottish typesetter, Palimpsest, sent "the last but one version" of the book file to the printers.
(8) The 4 groups were as follows; workers routinely engaged in both VDT work and key-punch work at a printing company (A-1 group), researchers or office workers handling VDT irregularly at a chemical company (B-1 group), typesetters at a printing company (A-2 group), and office workers at a chemical company (B-2 group).
(9) So it is particularly unfortunate that, thanks to an apparent mistake by his typesetters, the version published in Britain has been found to be littered with errors.
(10) After all, a typesetter could have been called a page grinder, a print poser or even a big yellow cheese, it wouldn't have made a difference to the work they actually did.