eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
noun
: eosinophilia with severe myalgia and often arthralgia, rash, peripheral edema, and cough or dyspnea that occurred especially in 1989 and 1990 in individuals who made extensive use of L-tryptophan containing a toxic contaminant
—abbreviation EMS
called also eosinophilia-myalgia
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