Byssinosis
Definition
Byssinosis is a disease of the lungs brought on by breathing in cotton dust or dusts from other vegetable fibers such as flax, hemp, or sisal while at work.
Byssinosis
Alternate Names : Cotton worker's lung, Cotton bract disease, Mill fever, Brown lung
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Byssinosis
Work in any room where any process up to and including the weaving process is performed in a factory in which the spinning or manipulation of raw or waste cotton or of flax, or the weaving of cotton or flax, is carried on.
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Byssinosis
Definition Byssinosis is a chronic, asthma-like narrowing of the airways. Also called brown lungdisease, byssinosis results from inhaling particles of cotton, flax, hemp, or jute.
byssinosis
Byssinosis is caused by dust from hemp, flax, and cotton processing. Also known as brown lung disease, the condition is chronic and characterized by chest tightness and shortness of breath.
Byssinosis is an occupational disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of cotton dust or dusts from other vegetable fibers such as flax, hemp, or sisal. Byssinosis is a chronic, asthma-like narrowing of the airways.
Byssinosis is a lung disease caused by inhalation of the dust produced during the processing of organic fibers such as cotton, jute, flax, hemp, or sisal. It is characterized by a history of exposure to dusts by textile manufacture.
Byssinosis
A variety of pneumonoconiosis due to inhalation of cotton fiber. [Dunglison1868].
Fibroid phthisis caused by the inhalation of cotton or linen dust. [Kober1916].
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occupational disease n. A disease, such as byssinosis or black lung, resulting from the conditions of a person's work, trade, or
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AllRefer Health - Occupational Asthma (Asthma - Occupational Exposure, Byssinosis - Work-Aggravated Asthma, Irritant-Induced Reactive Airways Disease)
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Pneumoconiosis (Asbestosis, Baritosis, Bauxite fibrosis, Berylliosis, Caplan's syndrome, Chalicosis, Coalworker's pneumoconiosis, Siderosis, Silicosis, Talcosis, Byssinosis) ...
Overall, most physicians do not encounter these diseases very frequently. Byssinosis, caused by exposure to cotton dust, is sometimes included among the pneumoconioses, ...
Occupational lung diseases include asbestosis among asbestos miners and those who work with friable asbestos insulation, as well as black lung (coalworker's pneumoconiosis) among coal miners, and byssinosis among workers in parts of the cotton ...
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the pneumoconioses, including coal workers' pneumoconiosis, asbestosis, silicosis, byssinosis, and other and unspecified pneumoconioses), nearly all cases are attributable to hazardous occupational exposure.
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 See also: Lung Disease, Pneumoconiosis, Silicosis, Asthma, Symptom
  
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