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| Domain | Definition |
Health | An airway obstruction due to the dust inhaled during the processing of cotton. (references) |
Medicine | An occupational respiratory disease of cotton, flax and hemp workers, characterized by symptoms(especially wheezing)most severe at the beginning of each work week. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A disease that affects people who work in cotton mills. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BYSSINOSISSynonym: Brown lung. (additional references) |
Crosswords: BYSSINOSIS |
| Specialty definitions using "BYSSINOSIS": Monday fever, Monday morning asthma, Monday syndrome, Monday tightness. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
byssinosis | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BYSSINOSIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | byssinosis (cotton-mill fever, mill fever), byssinose (cotton-mill fever, mill fever, weaver's cough), bomuldsstoevsygdom (weaver's cough), bomuldsfeber (cotton-mill fever, mill fever). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | byssinosis (brown lung, cotton mill fever, cotton-mill fever, grinder's asthma, mill fever, monday-feeling, weaver's cough), stoflong (cotton-mill fever, mill fever), cotton mill fever (cotton-mill fever, mill fever). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | byssinose, toux des tisseurs, maladie des fileurs. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Byssinosis (cotton-mill fever, mill fever), Byssinose (cotton-mill fever, grinder's asthma, mill fever, monday-feeling), Baumwollstaublunge (cotton-mill fever, grinder's asthma, mill fever, monday-feeling), Baumwollschaedigung (weaver's cough), Baumwollfieber (cotton-mill fever, mill fever), Weberhusten, Staubfieber (cotton-mill fever, mill fever), Spinnereifieber (cotton-mill fever, grinder's asthma, mill fever, monday-feeling), Monday-fever (cotton-mill fever, mill fever), Monday-feeling (cotton-mill fever, mill fever), grinder's asthma (cotton-mill fever, mill fever), cotton-mill fever (cotton-mill fever, mill fever). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | βυσσίνωσις ή βαμβακίτις πνευμονοκονίωσις οφειλομένη εις εισπνοήν κόνεως βά μβακος ή λίνου (weaver's cough), βυσσίνωση (cotton-mill fever, mill fever). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | bissinosi (cotton-mill fever, grinder's asthma, mill fever, monday-feeling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | yssinosisbay bisinosis (brown lung, cotton mill fever, cotton-mill fever, grinder's asthma, mill fever, monday-feeling, weaver's cough). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-i-n-o-s-s-s-s-y" | |
-4 letters: bisons. | |
-5 letters: bison, bossy, byssi, noisy, sissy, snibs, snobs, sonsy, yonis. | |
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