PNEUMOCONIOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pneumoconiosis mean? 

• PNEUMOCONIOSIS (noun)
  The noun PNEUMOCONIOSIS has 1 sense:

1. chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles

  Familiarity information: PNEUMOCONIOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PNEUMOCONIOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

pneumoconiosis; pneumonoconiosis

Hypernyms ("pneumoconiosis" is a kind of...):

respiratory disease; respiratory disorder; respiratory illness (a disease affecting the respiratory system)

Meronyms (parts of "pneumoconiosis"):

fibrosis (development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pneumoconiosis"):

anthracosis; black lung; black lung disease; coal miner's lung (lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust)

asbestosis (lung disease caused by inhaling asbestos particles)

siderosis (fibrosis of the lung caused by iron dust; occurs among welders and other metal workers)

silicosis (a lung disease caused by inhaling particles of silica or quartz or slate)

 Context examples 

Representative examples include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, atelectasis, lung infections, pulmonary fibrosis, and pneumoconiosis.

(Non-Neoplastic Lung Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, pneumoconiosis, asbestosis, atelectasis, radiation induced pneumonitis, and radiation fibrosis.

(Chronic Lung Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)