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Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic

Medical Definition: Conditions in which inhalation of organic dusts results in hypersensitivity reactions at the alveolar level, associated with the production of precipitins.
Guide Notes: a type of resp hypersensitivity
Previously Indexed: Respiratory Hypersensitivity (1966-1976)
Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Bird Fancier's Lung - A respiratory disorder due to an acquired hypersensitivity to the dust of bird droppings.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Farmer's Lung - Systemic and pulmonary reactions resulting from inhalation of dust from moldy hay, threshing dust, or moldy straw, by persons who have become hypersensitive to antigens in the dust. It is most often associated with inhalation of spores of Micromonospora faeni or Thermoactinomyces vulgaris. (From Dorland, 27th ed)

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