chronic poisoning

Estimating the numbers of chronic poisonings worldwide is even more difficult.

All these uses presumably contributed to the chronic poisoning of Rome's peoples.

In livestock it is caused by chronic poisoning with swainsonine (see Locoweed).

People who survive acute poisoning often go on to display symptoms of chronic poisoning.

A medical sign of chronic poisoning is the presence of painful tender swellings on the long bones.

Children with chronic poisoning may refuse to play or may have hyperkinetic or aggressive behavior disorders.

Many fatal cases of sulfonal poisoning are on record, both from chronic poisoning and from a single large dose.

Two hairs contained mercury and separately lead at levels indicating chronic poisoning (Spargo & Pounds 1979).

This was the first time that the ancient syndrome, known to Romans as morbi metallici, was attributed specifically to chronic poisoning with lead.

Chronic poisoning displays as agitation, irritability, vision disorders, hypertension, and also a grayish facial hue.

In acute poisoning, a single large dose is taken; in chronic poisoning, higher than normal doses are taken over a period of time.

The health record of the workers is bleak: chronic poisoning from overexposure to fluorides, and a high incidence of lung cancer and respiratory diseases.

Thus, the longer the biological half-life of the substance the greater the risk of chronic poisoning, even if environmental levels of the toxin are not very high.

Chronic poisoning usually presents with symptoms affecting multiple systems, but is associated with three main types of symptoms: gastrointestinal, neuromuscular, and neurological.

A single overdose may cause acute poisoning; continuous usage of an elevated dosage over long periods of time may cause chronic poisoning.

Medical toxicologists are involved in the assessment and treatment of acute or chronic poisoning, adverse drug reactions (ADR), overdoses, envenomations, and substance abuse, and other chemical exposures.

Pyrrolizidine alkaloidosis is a disease caused by chronic poisoning found in both humans and animals caused by ingesting poisonous plants which contain the natural chemical compounds known as pyrrolizidine alkaloids.

Blood or urine cadmium concentrations provide a better index of excessive exposure in industrial situations or following acute poisoning, whereas organ tissue (lung, liver, kidney) cadmium concentrations may be useful in fatalities resulting from either acute or chronic poisoning.

Patrick Stortebecker, a Swedish neurologist, wrote in the March 1989 Swedish Journal of Biological Medicine: Baader and Holstein in 1933, and later Stock in 1936, reported insidious chronic poisoning from much lower Hg [mercury] levels gives a sensitivity toward further mercury exposure.