| 单词 | grocer's itch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrocer's itch grocer's itch n. (also †grocers itch, grocers' itch) now rare an itchy skin eruption occurring on the hands and arms of grocers or other persons who handle stored food products, usually attributed to irritation from or allergy to acarid mites infesting such products. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > occupational industrial disease1854 occupation disease1900 occupational disease1901 1752 Ess. Sugar 8 It is also observ'd, that Grocers have..sometimes scabby Hands, by some call'd, The Grocers Itch, caus'd, as said, by the handling of Sugar. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 623 The Local Form [of scall] is chiefly produced by the use of irritant materials, constantly applied to the parts affected..as sugar among the labourers in grocery warehouses, and lime among bricklayers. Whence this variety has been vulgarly called Grocer's Itch, or Bricklayer's Itch. 1928 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 7/2 Whereas the sugar mites (Acarus sacchari), the cause of a troublesome skin disease known as ‘grocer's itch’, and other organisms may often be found.., they are never found nor could they live in pure refined sugar or in Lyle's Golden Syrup. 2006 J. Stranks A-Z Health & Safety 108 Grain itch, barley itch, grocer's itch and copra itch are varieties of dermatitis caused by mites. < as lemmas |
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