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单词 byssinosis
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byssinosisn.

/bɪsɪˈnəʊsɪs/
Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek βύσσινος made of byssus (see byssine adj.) + -osis suffix.
Pathology.
A chronic disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of fine particles of textile fibres, esp. cotton dust, over a long period.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by dust or fibre
stone-cutter's disease or phthisis1540
phthisis1821
black lung1837
anthracosis1838
shoddy fever1851
potter's consumption1863
siderosis1869
collier's phthisis1871
iron lung1872
chalicosis1878
pneumonoconiosis1878
tabacosis1879
byssinosis1881
pneumoconiosis1881
silicosis1881
potter's rot1895
fur-fever1905
stonemason's lung1905
asbestosis1927
anthracosilicosis1929
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis1935
bagassosis1941
bagasse1943
berylliosis1943
thesaurosis1958
1881 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 15 395 Other forms, such as byssinosis (or the disease produced by the inhalation of cotton fibre) do not differ from the ordinary forms of phthisis.
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. I. 203/2 Byssinosis, production of lung disease by inhalation of cotton-fibres.
1948 Lancet 14 Feb. 253/1 Byssinosis develops after long and continuous exposure to cotton dust.
1958 Times 20 June 11/7 A worker [at Calder Hall] is apparently a good deal healthier than one in a Lancashire cotton mill where byssinosis has not yet been eradicated.

Derivatives

byssiˈnotic adj. affected with, characteristic of byssinosis; also as n., a byssinotic person.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [adjective] > disorders of lungs > caused by dust or fibre
anthracotic1875
poucey1880
silicotic1913
pneumonoconiotic1931
pneumoconiotic1933
byssinotic1952
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by dust or fibre > person
pneumonoconiotic1933
pneumoconiotic1944
byssinotic1952
1952 Brit. Jrnl. Industr. Med. 9 138/2 Prausnitz..stated that byssinotics were hypersensitive..to a substance which could be extracted from cotton dust.
1952 Brit. Jrnl. Industr. Med. 9 195/1 The skin testing of byssinotic persons with cotton dust extracts fails to distinguish them from their symptomless fellow workers.
1964 Lancet 19 Sept. 609/2 The most severe attacks of byssinotic symptoms are after the annual holidays.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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