ragsorter's disease
- noun
- /ˈræɡˌsɔrtərz dɪˈziz/
- Archaic
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enfermedad del deshollinador
- In the early 1900s, many factory workers developed ragsorter's disease from handling contaminated wool and rags.
Examples
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The symptoms of ragsorter's disease include chills and a persistent cough.
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The decline of the textile industry led to a significant reduction in cases of ragsorter's disease.
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Doctors quickly recognized the symptoms of ragsorter's disease after the exposed worker began coughing severely.
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Have you heard about ragsorter's disease?
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The doctor diagnosed the factory worker with ragsorter's disease after he reported shortness of breath and chills.
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Many workers in the textile industry suffered from ragsorter's disease due to inhaling dust from contaminated rags.
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Initial symptoms of ragsorter's disease often include a severe cough and difficulty breathing.
Synonyms
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6.9
A serious disease that mainly affects animals like cows and sheep and can also infect people
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A serious lung infection caused when tiny bacteria are breathed in, often deadly without quick treatment
A serious lung infection from breathing in anthrax bacteria that can cause severe breathing problems and heart failure
A severe lung infection from breathing in anthrax spores that quickly becomes life threatening
A serious lung infection caused by breathing in tiny spores that causes severe breathing problems and gets worse quickly
A serious lung infection people get from germs in contaminated wool
A serious lung disease from dust in infected wool that may lead to severe difficulty breathing and heart failure
Surface Forms
Morphology
ragsorter's + disease
The phrase transparently combines an occupation label ('ragsorter' = someone who sorts rags) with 'disease', so a learner who knows the parts can infer it names an illness affecting people who sort rags (an occupational disease). However, the precise medical cause (inhalational anthrax) and detailed symptoms are technical and not predictable from the constituents, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Ragsorter's disease comes from workers called ragsorters who sorted old, dusty rags in factories. They breathed in the dust that carried a dangerous germ and became very sick, so the name now means 'a serious illness from breathing in infected dust'.