definitions

wool-sorter's disease

noun

another name for anthrax

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Nearby words

wool fat, wool sponge, wool stapler, wool store, wool table, wool-sorter's disease, woolen, wooler, woolf, woolf, virginia, 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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