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Byssinosis

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.Cotton worker''s lung; Cotton bract disease; Mill fever; Brown lung.Breathing in the dust pr...

Source:ADAM

Date:April 16, 2009

Byssinosis

Byssinosis is a chronic, asthma-like narrowing of the airways. Also called brown lung disease, byssinosis results from inhaling particles of cotton, flax, hemp, or jute.Although inhaling cotton dust was identified as a source of respiratory diseas...

Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

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