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painter's colic

NOUN
  1. symptom of chronic lead poisoning and associated with obstinate constipation

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  • When taken in small but long-continued doses, it produces colic, called painter's colic; great pain, obstinate constipation, and in extreme cases paralytic, symptoms, especially wrist-drop, with a blue line along the edge of the gums. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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