pneumoconiosis

English

Etymology

From New Latin pneumoconiōsis, from Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, breath, spirit”) + κόνις (kónis, “dust”) +‎ -osis.

Noun

pneumoconiosis (countable and uncountable, plural pneumoconioses)

1. (pathology) A disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of particulate matter.
   • 2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants‎^[1], Verso Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:

     Zhang Haichao was twenty-eight when he got pneumoconiosis. He was fit and well before he started working at an abrasive-materials factory in Xinmi, not far from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, where he comes from. On the job, he inhaled a huge amount of dust every day. In the second half of 2007, he began to cough and felt short of breath.

Hyponyms

• coalworker's pneumoconiosis
• coal worker's pneumoconiosis
• CWP
• black lung
• miner's cough
• anthracosilicosis
• silicosis
• asbestosis

Coordinate terms

• mesothelioma

Derived terms

• rheumatoid pneumoconiosis

 

Translations

disease of the lungs

• Catalan: pneumoconiosi f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肺塵埃沉着病

  Mandarin: 塵肺／尘肺 (zh) (chénfèi) 黑肺病 (zh) (hēifèibìng) 矽肺病 (zh), 塵肺病／尘肺病 (zh) (chénfèibìng)

• Czech: pneumokonióza f
• Dutch: stoflong (nl) f, pneumoconiose f
• Esperanto: pneŭmokoniozo
• Finnish: pölykeuhko
• French: pneumoconiose (fr)
• German: Pneumokoniose, Staublunge f
• Greek: πνευμοκονίωση (pnevmokoníosi)
• Italian: pneumoconiosi (it)
• Japanese: 肺塵症 (はいじんしょう, haijinshō)
• Korean: 진폐증 (jinpyejeung)
• Latin: pneumoconiosis
• Polish: pylica f, pylica płuc f
• Portuguese: pneumoconiose (pt) f
• Russian: пневмокониоз (ru) (pnevmokonioz)
• Spanish: neumoconiosis (es) f
• Swedish: pneumokonios c, dammlunga c
• Turkish: pnömokonyoz (tr)