| 单词 | bricklayers' itch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbricklayers' itch bricklayers' itch n. (also bricklayer's itch, bricklayers itch) an occupational disease of bricklayers characterized by the presence of an itchy rash on the hands, attributed to contact with lime and other substances contained in mortar or cement. ΚΠ 1813 T. Bateman Pract. Synopsis Cutaneous Dis. v. 150 It is worthy of remark, that both the grocer's and the bricklayer's itch is, in some individuals, a pustular, and in others a vesicular eruption, referable to the Eczema; but in neither case contagious. 1980 E. Cronin Contact Dermatitis 300 In France in 1957 bricklayers itch constituted 20–25 per cent of occupational skin diseases. 2004 D. E. Manuel Walking Paris Hospitals 45 (note) Itch: generic term for a wide range of skin diseases characterised by itching, including, for example, barbers' itch, grocers' itch, bricklayers' itch. bricklayers' itch Categories » b. Applied, with qualification, to various forms of eczema and other skin diseases, as bakers' itch, bricklayers' itch, grocers' itch (see these words). Norwegian itch, a form of leprosy occurring in Norway. < as lemmas |
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