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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An occupational disease affecting the lungs, marked by chronic shortness of breath caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in moldy hay dust that has been inhaled.
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- noun alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay
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