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wool-sorter's disease

noun

another name for anthrax

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Nearby words

  1. wool fat,
  2. wool sponge,
  3. wool stapler,
  4. wool store,
  5. wool table,
  6. woolen,
  7. wooler,
  8. woolf,
  9. woolf, virginia,
  10. woolfell
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Medicine definitions for wool-sorter's disease

wool-sorter's disease

n.

A pulmonary form of anthrax that results from the inhalation of spores of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis in the wool of contaminated sheep.
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