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toxic oil syndrome

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English

Syllables
tox-i-c oil syn-drome
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An unusual disease that broke out in Spain in 1981, resembling a lung infection but unaffected by antibiotics, caused by the consumption of imported rapeseed oil, intended for industrial use, that had been sold as olive oil.

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What does toxic oil syndrome mean?
An unusual disease that broke out in Spain in 1981, resembling a lung infection but unaffected by antibiotics, caused by the consumption of imported rapeseed oil, intended for industrial use, that had been sold as olive oil.

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