woolsorter's pneumonia
- noun
- /ˈwuːlˌsɔːrtərz nuːˈmoʊniə/
- Archaic
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neumonía del clasificador de lana
- Many workers developed woolsorter's pneumonia after years of exposure to contaminated wool.
Examples
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The doctor diagnosed him with woolsorter's pneumonia.
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Modern safety standards have nearly eliminated cases of woolsorter's pneumonia.
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The outbreak of woolsorter's pneumonia alarmed health authorities in the textile town.
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Don't underestimate the dangers of woolsorter's pneumonia!
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Many workers developed woolsorter's pneumonia after years of exposure to contaminated wool.
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Modern safety standards have nearly eliminated cases of woolsorter's pneumonia among former wool workers.
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The outbreak of woolsorter's pneumonia in the region prompted health inspectors to assess air quality.
Synonyms
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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 people get from germs in contaminated wool
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 caused by breathing dust with anthrax bacteria, often from work with wool
A serious lung infection from breathing in anthrax bacteria that can cause severe breathing problems and heart failure
Surface Forms
Morphology
woolsorter's + pneumonia
The phrase compositionally names a lung infection affecting wool sorters: 'woolsorter's' points to the occupation/agent and 'pneumonia' to a lung infection, so a learner who knows those words can infer it is pneumonia related to wool sorting. The precise medical detail (that it is anthrax-related and particularly severe) is specialized and not derivable, but the basic occupational-disease meaning is transparently built from the constituents.
Etymology
Woolsorter's pneumonia comes from the old job of people who sorted raw wool. When these sorters 'breathed in' tiny dust from infected animals, they got a very bad lung infection, so the name means the deadly lung disease workers caught from wool.