farmer's lung
1farmer’s lung — noun A lung disease caused by the spores of the fungus actinomycetes which develop in hay baled while it is still damp ● farm …
2farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss. [1940 45] * * * ▪ pathology also called thresher s lung or harvester s lung a pulmonary disorder that results from the… …
3Farmer's lung — Infobox Disease Name = Farmers lung Caption = DiseasesDB = 29636 ICD10 = ICD10|J|67|0|j|60 ICD9 = ICD9|495.0 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 771 MeshID = D005203 Farmer s lung, not to be confused with silo filler… …
4farmer's lung — farm·er s lung .fär mərz n an acute pulmonary disorder that is characterized by sudden onset, fever, cough, expectoration, and breathlessness and that results from the inhalation of dust from moldy hay or straw * * * an occupational lung disease… …
5farmer's lung disease of cattle — a disease in cattle similar to farmer s lung in humans, caused by hypersensitivity to moldy hay contaminated by Saccharopolyspora rectivirgula or Thermoactinomyces vulgaris …
6farmer's lung — an occupational lung disease caused by allergy to fungal spores that grow in inadequately dried stored hay, straw, or grain, which then becomes mouldy. It is an allergic alveolitis, such as also results from sensitivity to many other allergens.… …
7farmer's lung — noun alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay • Syn: ↑thresher s lung • Hypernyms: ↑alveolitis …
8farmer's lung — noun Date: 1945 an acute pulmonary disorder characterized by sudden onset, fever, cough, expectoration, and breathlessness that results from the inhalation of spores in dust from moldy hay or straw …
9Farmer's lung — Type III hypersensitivity response to Micropolyspora faeni, a thermophilic bacterium found in mouldy hay. Conveniently afflicts Joe Grundy in BBC Radio 4&’s The Archers …
10farmer's lung — noun informal term for aspergillosis …