单词 | byssinosis |
释义 | byssinosisn. Pathology. A chronic disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of fine particles of textile fibres, esp. cotton dust, over a long period. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1881 |
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