单词 | pneumoconiosis |
释义 | pneumoconiosisn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1881 |
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