| 单词 | baker's itch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbaker's itch baker's itch n. psoriasis or contact dermatitis affecting bakers and others who work with flour, chiefly caused by an immune reaction to the bite of the flour mite, Acarus siro. ΚΠ 1802 Brit. Critic Apr. 410 There are various species of this complaint, which take their denomination from the part peculiarly affected..; or from the business exercised by persons most liable to it, as the grocer's and baker's itch. 1925 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Aug. 315/2 Considerable attention has been given to the subject of baker's itch during recent years, especially since the war. 2008 R. L. Rietschel & J. F. Fowler Fisher's Contact Dermatitis (ed. 6) xxi. 428/1 Baker's itch occurs among workers in granaries, flour mills, and bakeries, particularly in small establishments that do not use mechanical processes and have few sanitary arrangements to destroy mites. < as lemmas |
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