What does byssinosis mean?
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ˌbɪs əˈnoʊ sɪsbyssi·nosis
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byssinosisnoun
A lung disease, caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments.
Etymology: From byssinum via byssus + New Latin -osis.
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Byssinosis
Byssinosis, also called "brown lung disease" or "Monday fever", is an occupational lung disease caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments. Byssinosis commonly occurs in workers who are employed in yarn and fabric manufacture industries. It is now thought that the cotton dust directly causes the disease and some believe that the causative agents are endotoxins that come from the cell walls of gram negative bacteria that grow on the cotton. Although bacterial endotoxin is a likely cause, the absence of similar symptoms in workers in other industries exposed to endotoxins makes this uncertain. Of the 81 byssinosis-related fatalities reported in the United States between 1990 and 1999, 48% included an occupation in the yarn, thread, and fabric industry on the victim's death certificate. This disease often occurred in the times of the industrial revolution. Most commonly young girls working in mills or other textile factories would be afflicted with this disease. In the United States, from 1996 to 2005, North Carolina accounted for about 37% of all deaths caused byssinosis, with 31, followed by South Carolina and Georgia. The term "brown lung" is a misnomer, as the lungs of affected individuals are not brown.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Byssinosis
A condition of BRONCHOCONSTRICTION resulting from hypersensitive reaction to inhaled dust during the initial processing of cotton, flax, or hemp in the textile industry. Symptoms include wheezing and tightness in the chest.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of byssinosis in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of byssinosis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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