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Farmer's Lung

Definition: Farmer's Lung

Farmer's Lung

Noun

1. Alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Farmer's Lung

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Health

An occupational disease characterized by fever and dyspnea, caused by inhalation of organic dust from moldy hay containing spores of antinomycetes and certain true fungi, which thrive in the elevated temperatures of hay lofts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Farmer's Lung

Synonym: thresher's lung (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Farmer's Lung

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Books

  • Aspergillosis and farmer's lung in man and animal : proceedings of the 4th international symposium 7th-9th October 1971, Davos (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Farmer's Lung

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Health

These include such granulomatous diseases as berylliosis (a disease resulting from exposure to beryllium metal), tuberculosis, farmer's lung disease (hypersensitivity pneumonitis), fungal infections, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, and cancer of the lymph nodes (lymphoma). (references)

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Modern Translations: Farmer's Lung

Language Translations for "farmer's lung"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

farmer's lung (farmers'lung), tærskestøvslunge (farmers'lung), tærskerlunge (farmers'lung). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

boerenlong (farmers'lung). (various references)

   

French

  

poumon du fermier (farmers'lung), poumon de fermier (farmer's disease, farmers'lung). (various references)

   

German

  

Farmerlunge (farmer's disease, farmers'lung), Erntearbeiterlunge (farmers'lung). (various references)

   

Italian

  

polmone dell'agricoltore (farmers'lung), polmone dei fienatori (farmers'lung), pneumopatia dell'agricoltore (farmers'lung). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armer'sfay unglay

   

Spanish

  

pulmón del granjero (farmers'lung). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Farmer's Lung

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-e-f-g-l-m-n-r-r-s-u"

-4 letters: flaneurs, flangers, fraenums, fugleman, funerals, granules, manglers, manurers, mensural, numerals, regulars, surnamer.

-5 letters: almners, angelus, anglers, arguers, armfuls, armsful, armures, earfuls, engrams, engulfs, farmers, ferrums, ferulas, flagmen, flamens, flamers, flaneur, flanger, flanges, fraenum, framers, frenula, frenums, fulmars, funeral, fungals, furanes, furlers, garners, germans, granule, lagunes, langues, langurs, lungers, mangels, mangers, mangler, mangles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Farmer's Lung


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 72 6D 65 72 27 73      4C 75 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01110010 01101101 01100101 01110010 00100111 01110011 00100000 01001100 01110101 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#114 &#109 &#101 &#114 &#39 &#115 &#32 &#76 &#117 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0072 006D 0065 0072 0027 0073      004C 0075 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

406784797184985246878073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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