(n.) A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our study suggests that furriers can develop acute and chronic respiratory difficulties frequently associated with specific indicators of atopy.
(2) The furriers demonstrated significantly lower mean measured pre-shift values for FVC and FEV25 (P less than 0.05) when compared with the predicted.
(3) Increased total IgE was found in 9.5% of the furriers.
(4) A high prevalence of acute symptoms during the work shift was found among furriers.
(5) Occupational groups, such as reindeer-breeders, domestic servants in the tent of skins, hunters, fur-farmers, furriers) have been identified to be mostly at high risk for Echinococcus infection.
(6) A higher prevalence of all chronic respiratory symptoms was found among furriers when compared with controls; these differences were statistically significant for nasal catarrh (p less than 0.05) and sinusitis (p less than 0.01).
(7) It is recommended to accept a basalioma as occupational cancer in case of contact with carcinogens in furriers.
(8) A group of 31 females who did not work in the furrier industry also was included in the study as the control group.
(9) A higher prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms was found among the furriers than among the controls.
(10) Before the wall went up, he made regular trips to the West with his mother, a furrier, when she needed to pick up Persian furs that were unavailable in the GDR.
(11) Statistically significant mean reductions in lung function over the work shift were recorded in furriers for forced vital capacity (FVC), -4.1%; one-second forced expiratory volume (FEV1), -5.2%; and flow rate at 50% vital capacity (FEF50%), -6.3%.
(12) Born in Shoreditch in the East End of London, to Edward, a furrier, and Maud (nee Gibbs), a machinist, Henry was one of six children.
(13) A group of 54 women employed in the fur processing industry and a control group of 31 non-furriers were examined.
(14) Our data suggest that furriers are at risk of developing both acute and chronic respiratory symptoms as well as ventilatory capacity impairment as a result of occupational exposure.
(15) Most of the symptomatic furriers complained of acute symptoms during their work shifts.
(16) The highest prevalence in furriers was found for chronic cough (50%), sinusitis (30%), followed by dyspnea (25%), nasal catarrh (20%) and occupational asthma (5%).
(17) Among the furriers, two (5.0%) had symptoms characteristic of occupational asthma.
(18) The risk of getting a basalioma was significantly higher in the group of furriers than in the control population.
(19) Among the furriers, the highest prevalence of respiratory symptoms was recorded for chronic cough in 20 workers (50.0%), followed by sinusitis in 12 (30.0%), dyspnea in 10 (25.0%), and nasal catarrh in 8 workers (20.0%).
(20) Furriers demonstrated significantly lower mean Monday preshift measurements for FVC and flow rate at 25% (FEF25%) (p less than 0.05) when compared with those predicted.