Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome (RADS) is an asthma-like illness that starts suddenly after one accidental, very high exposure to an irritating gas, ...

“Stripper’s asthma” is an old nickname doctors once used for a lung problem in textile mills. It referred to workers called “strippers” who cleaned or ...

Mill fever is a short-term illness that happens after breathing a lot of textile plant dust, especially in cotton, flax, hemp, jute, or similar fiber mills. ...

Flax-dressers’ disease is a breathing problem caused by regularly inhaling flax plant dust while preparing or processing flax fibers. The very small dust ...

Cotton-dust asthma is breathing trouble caused by inhaling tiny dust particles from raw cotton and other plant fibers (like flax or hemp) in mills, gins, and ...

Cotton workers’ lung disease—also called byssinosis—is a lung problem caused by breathing in dust from cotton, flax, or hemp during processing in mills and ...

Cotton mill fever is a short-lasting, flu-like illness that happens after breathing a large amount of cotton dust, usually inside textile mills. People feel ...

Cotton Dust Pneumoconiosis (Byssinosis) is a lung disease caused by breathing cotton dust (and sometimes flax, hemp, or jute dust) in textile work. The dust ...

Byssinosis is a lung disease caused by breathing in dust from natural plant fibers at work. The dust most often comes from cotton. It can also come from flax ...

Benzoylcholinesterase (also called pseudocholinesterase or butyrylcholinesterase) is an enzyme made in the liver and released into your blood. Its job is to ...

Post-anesthetic apnea due to BCHE deficiency means a person has a much slower breakdown of certain anesthesia muscle-relaxing drugs—mainly succinylcholine ...

Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) deficiency—also called pseudocholinesterase deficiency—is a condition in which the blood enzyme that breaks down certain ...

Butterfly-shaped pigmentary macular dystrophy (often shortened to “butterfly-shaped pattern dystrophy”) is a rare, inherited eye condition. It affects the ...

Butterfly-shaped pattern dystrophy is a rare, inherited eye condition that mainly affects the macula, the sharp-vision center of the retina. In this condition, ...

Butterfly-shaped pigment dystrophy is a rare, inherited macular condition in which pigment and waste material (mainly lipofuscin) build up in the retinal ...

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