alveolitis
Noun
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is a type of: inflammation, redness, rubor - a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heatsame as: dry socket
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is a type of: inflammation, redness, rubor - a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heatsubtypes:
- farmer's lung, thresher's lung - alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay
- bagascosis, bagassosis - alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust)
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