单词 | fluorosis |
释义 | fluorosisn. Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. The condition caused in humans, livestock, and other animals by excessive intake of fluorine compounds, usually in water or food, most commonly occurring in a chronic form characterized by discoloration and pitting of the enamel of the teeth and osteosclerosis of the bones.Fluorosis can also occur in an acute and potentially fatal form characterized by gastro-enteritis and tetany. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders caused by poisons > [noun] > by other agents arsenicism1842 marsh-poisoning1842 strychnism1857 chloralism1879 vanillism1884 chloralization1885 thyroidism1897 mycetismus1900 mycetism1926 fluorosis1927 mycotoxicosis1948 neurotoxicity1949 1927 Chem. Abstr. 21 3404 An investigation which resulted in characterizing a new disease, fluorosis. 1936 Nature 16 May 828/2 Fluorine from chemical works or resulting from volcanic activity can get into soil and pasture and cause fluorosis in cattle. 1958 Spectator 6 June 737/2 Crippling fluorosis in natural fluoride areas at or near the so-called safe concentration has been admitted by some of the top American proponents themselves. 1971 Daily Tel. 28 May (Colour Suppl.) 21/4 Cattle nearby have in the past suffered from fluorosis, a condition not unlike rheumatoid arthritis in which the joints seize up. 2002 Sci. Amer. Feb. 22/2 Fluorosis is more common than arsenic poisoning because high-fluorine coal is combined with high-fluorine clay to make briquettes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1927 |
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