Definition of Pneumonoconiosis

1. Noun. Chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles.


Definition of Pneumonoconiosis

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of pneumoconiosis) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Pneumonoconiosis

1. Fibrosis and scarring of the lungs secondary to the repeated inhalation of dust associated with some occupation. Examples include silica, asbestos and coal dust exposure. (29 Oct 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pneumonoconiosis

pneumonic
pneumonic device
pneumonic devices
pneumonic plague
pneumonics
pneumonitic
pneumonitides
pneumonitis
pneumonitises
pneumoniæ
pneumono-
pneumonocele
pneumonocentesis
pneumonococcal
pneumonococcus
pneumonoconiosis (current term)
pneumonocyte
pneumonokoniosis
pneumonolysis
pneumonomelanosis
pneumonometer
pneumonometers
pneumonomoniliasis
pneumonomycosis
pneumonopathy
pneumonopexy
pneumonophora
pneumonopleuritis
pneumonorrhaphy
pneumonotomy

Literary usage of Pneumonoconiosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by John C. Da Costa (1919)
"pneumonoconiosis Clinical Pathology.—A combined fibrosis and pigmentation of the lungs, due to the inhalation of minute particles of dust, ..."

2. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"pneumonoconiosis. Definition.—This term is applied to a state of the lungs in ... Still another type of foreign body capable of causing pneumonoconiosis ..."

3. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell, Frederick Cheever Shattuck (1886)
"(pneumonoconiosis.) ALTHOUGH there are a number of important contrivances in the respiratory apparatus to impede the entrance of foreign substances ..."

4. Diseases of the Lungs: Their Pathology, Symptomatology, Diagnosis, and Treatment by Charles Gatchell (1902)
"The treatment of congenital atelectasis belongs to works on obstetrics. pneumonoconiosis. Synonyms.—Anthracosis (coal-dust) ; siderosis (metal- dust) ..."

5. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by John C. Da Costa (1919)
"pneumonoconiosis Clinical Pathology.—A combined fibrosis and pigmentation of the lungs, due to the inhalation of minute particles of dust, ..."

6. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"pneumonoconiosis. Definition.—This term is applied to a state of the lungs in ... Still another type of foreign body capable of causing pneumonoconiosis ..."

7. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell, Frederick Cheever Shattuck (1886)
"(pneumonoconiosis.) ALTHOUGH there are a number of important contrivances in the respiratory apparatus to impede the entrance of foreign substances ..."

8. Diseases of the Lungs: Their Pathology, Symptomatology, Diagnosis, and Treatment by Charles Gatchell (1902)
"The treatment of congenital atelectasis belongs to works on obstetrics. pneumonoconiosis. Synonyms.—Anthracosis (coal-dust) ; siderosis (metal- dust) ..."

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