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Brown lung disease. A respiratory disease resulting from the inhalation of cotton dust. A lung disease which is a form of pneumoconiosis caused by inhaling cotton dust. Lung disease caused by breathing in the dust of cotton, flax, or hemp. Symptoms, which are typically more pronounced when the patient returns to work after the weekend…

An antioxidant used as a food additive to prevent or retard fat- containing foods from becoming rancid: butylated hydroxytoluene. A food additive similar in function to BHT.  

An analogue of amyl nitrate used recreationally as a euphoriant and presumed sexual stimulation.  

Butanol.  

In pharmacology, usually pertains to an immature mushroom before the expansion of the cap. An anatomical or pathological structure that resembles a button.  

The prominence formed by gluteal muscles on the posterior of either side of the body. One of the two fleshy parts below the back, on which a person sits, made up mainly of the gluteal muscles. External prominence posterior to the hips; consists of the gluteal muscles and underlying structures. The external prominences posterior to…

A commercial preparation of butabarbital.  

A barbiturate sedative-hypnotic.  

A method used extensively during the 1960s and 1970s for remedying segregation by transporting students to schools that had been racially or ethnically unbalanced in the past. In education, transporting of schoolchildren who live beyond a certain distance; but in recent decades, longer-distance transporting of children to schools beyond their neighborhood school to achieve racial…

The budget and business aspects of a proposal requested to be separate from the technical and program sections, budget.