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anthracosis; miner's lung, black lung disease, coal worker's pneumoconiosis, miner's pneumoconiosis
1. A disease of the lungs caused by the long-term inhalation of coal dust.
2. A chronic lung disease characterized by the deposit of coal dust, smoke, and carbon in the lungs and by the formation of black nodules on the bronchioles.
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pneumoconiosis, pneumonoconiosis (s) (noun); pneumoconioses, pneumonoconioses (pl)
Any of various lung disorders resulting from the breathing in of minute particles of mineral or metallic dust: Several of the miners were diagnosed with pneumoconiosis brought on by their years of working in the poorly ventilated mines.
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