thresher's lung
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Definition
- Noun:
- A lung disease: "thresher's lung" is a specific type of allergic alveolitis, an inflammation of the lung's air sacs (alveoli).
- Cause: It is caused by inhaling dust containing fungal spores from moldy hay or other moldy agricultural material, which triggers an allergic reaction in the lungs.
Usage
- "Thresher's lung" is a medical term used to describe an occupational lung disease historically associated with farm work, particularly threshing.
- It is used as a countable noun, often preceded by articles like "a" or "the."
Examples
- Noun:
- The farmer was diagnosed with thresher's lung after years of working with moldy hay.
- Preventing thresher's lung involves using protective masks and ensuring hay is properly dried and stored.
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in medical, historical, and occupational health contexts to discuss respiratory conditions linked to specific agricultural exposures.
- It is considered a type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
Variants and Related Words
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (n): The broader medical category for allergic lung inflammation caused by inhaling various organic dusts, including the condition known as thresher's lung.
- Farmer's lung (n): A very similar or synonymous condition, also an allergic alveolitis caused by inhaling moldy hay dust.
Synonyms
- Extrinsic allergic alveolitis: A more general medical term.
- Occupational lung disease: A broader category that includes thresher's lung.
Notes
- "Thresher's lung" is a compound noun. The core target word for this entry is the full compound term. It describes a specific disease entity and is not typically broken down for separate analysis of its parts (e.g., "thresher" or "lung") in this medical context.
Noun
- alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay