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Farmer's Lung

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Noun

1. farmer's lung, thresher's lung

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

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Farmer's Lung

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noun
inflammation of the alveoli of the lungs caused by an allergic response to fungal spores in hay

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Farmer's Lung

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n.
An occupational disease affecting the lungs, marked by chronic shortness of breath caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in moldy hay dust that has been inhaled.

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