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byssinosis Path.|bɪsɪˈnəʊsɪs|
[mod.L., f. Gr. βύσσινος made of byssus (see byssine) + -osis.]
A chronic disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of fine particles of textile fibres, esp. cotton dust, over a long period.
1881Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. XV. 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. 1890Billings Med. Dict. I. 203/2 Byssinosis, production of lung disease by inhalation of cotton-fibres. 1948Lancet 14 Feb. 253/1 Byssinosis develops after long and continuous exposure to cotton dust. 1958Times 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.
Hence byssiˈnotic a., affected with, characteristic of byssinosis; also as n., a byssinotic person.
1952Brit. Jrnl. Industr. Med. IX. 138/2 Prausnitz..stated that byssinotics were hypersensitive..to a substance which could be extracted from cotton dust. Ibid. 195/1 The skin testing of byssinotic persons with cotton dust extracts fails to distinguish them from their symptomless fellow workers. 1964Lancet 19 Sept. 609/2 The most severe attacks of byssinotic symptoms are after the annual holidays. |