| 释义 |
yusho Path.|ˈjuːʃəʊ|
[a. Jap., f. yu oil + sho disease.]
A disease characterized by the development of brown staining of the skin and severe acne, caused by the ingestion of polychlorinated biphenyls.
1969Goto & Higuchi in Fukuoka Acta Med. LX. 409 (heading) The symptomatology of yusho (chlorobiphenyls poisoning) in dermatology. Ibid., We thought its cause might be rice oil... The case has been called Yusho. 1973G. L. Waldbott Health Effects of Environmental Pollutants xviii. 226/1 In 1968 about 1000 persons in southern Japan developed darkened skin..and severe acne... The illness was named ‘Yusho’, or rice oil disease, because the patients had eaten food cooked with contaminated rice oil. 1977Lancet 22 Jan. 176/1 Chisato Hirayama provides a chapter on the clinical aspects of yusho (oil disease), the important skin symptoms being reviewed separately. |