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单词 pneumoconiosis
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pneumoconiosisn.

Brit. /ˌnjuːmə(ʊ)ˌkəʊnɪˈəʊsɪs/, U.S. /ˈˌn(j)umoʊˌkoʊniˈoʊsəs/
Inflections: Plural pneumoconioses, (now rare) pneumokonioses.
Forms: 1800s– pneumoconiosis, 1800s– pneumokoniosis (now rare).
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pneumonoconiosis n.
Etymology: Alteration of pneumonoconiosis n., after pneumo- comb. form. Compare French pneumoconiose (1874; also as pneumokoniose).
Medicine.
Lung disease, usually characterized by chronic inflammation and fibrosis, caused by the inhalation of mineral, metal, or organic dusts; any of a group of such diseases, chiefly occupational, resulting from the inhalation of specific kinds of dust.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by dust or fibre
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
1881 Med. Times & Gaz. 28 May 589/1 (heading) The pathology of pneumokonioses.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 242 Pneumoconiosis, pneumonoconiosis, or..‘Dusty-lung-disease’..has attracted but little attention in this country.
1908 T. Oliver Dis. of Occupation ix. 247 There are various forms of dust diseases of the lungs, or pneumokonioses, e.g., anthracosis;..chalicosis and silicosis;..and byssinosis.
1940 H. E. Collier Outl. Industr. Med. Pract. xxxix. 356 The general object of the tests has been..to provide an early method of recognizing the outset of any of the pneumoconioses before the onset of the disablement.
1953 Jrnl. Pathol. & Bacteriol. 66 235 Simple pneumokoniosis..is characterised by numerous small discrete aggregations of dust in which only a little fibrosis occurs.
1976 S. Wales Echo 27 Nov. 6/9 The cause of death was given as broncho-pneumonia due to recumbency following a fracture of the left femur, and pneumoconiosis.
1991 Lancet 9 Feb. 341/1 Silicosis is the oldest of the pneumoconioses, and is widely thought to have disappeared from the developed world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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