eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
n : eosinophilia with severe myalgia and often arthralgia, rash, peripheral edema, and cough or dyspnea that occurred esp. in 1989 and 1990 in individuals who made extensive use of L-tryptophan containing a toxic contaminant - abbr. EMS .
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