prescribed disease
prescribed disease (pri-skrybd) n. one of a number of occupational diseases for which benefits are payable. Such diseases arise as a result of employment requiring close contact with a hazardous substance or circumstance and include decompression sickness in divers and infections such as anthrax in those handling wool.
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