anthracosilicosisn.
/ˌanθrəkəʊˌsɪlᵻˈkəʊsɪs/, U.S. /ˌænθrəkoʊˌsɪləˈkoʊsəs/ Medicine.
Lung disease produced by chronic inhalation of dust containing particles of carbon and silica, occurring esp. in miners; silicosis with pigmentation from carbon particles. Cf. anthracosis n.2, silicosis n.
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stone-cutter's disease or phthisis1540
phthisis1821
black lung1837
anthracosis1838
shoddy fever1851
potter's consumption1863
siderosis1869
collier's phthisis1871
iron lung1872
chalicosis1878
pneumonoconiosis1878
tabacosis1879
byssinosis1881
pneumoconiosis1881
silicosis1881
potter's rot1895
fur-fever1905
stonemason's lung1905
asbestosis1927
anthracosilicosis1929
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis1935
bagassosis1941
bagasse1943
berylliosis1943
thesaurosis1958
1929 Jrnl. Royal Sanitary Inst. 49 627 Miners with anthraco-silicosis in the ore mines of Schneeberg in Saxony shew a considerable incidence of primary carcinoma of the lung.
1936 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 10 Oct. 1179/1 An example [of silicosis] is the disease caused by dust generated in the mining and processing of hard coal in Pennsylvania. The disease produced by this dust is termed anthracosilicosis.
1982 Chest 82 747/1 This combination of morphologic lesions gave rise to the older descriptive item ‘anthracosilicosis’.
2004 Human Pathol. 35 1517/2 The terms anthracosilicosis and siderosilicosis also refer to a subset of MDP [= mixed-dust pneumoconiosis].
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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