black lung
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (pathology) A chronic disease of the lungs caused by the long-term inhalation of coal dust.
- Synonyms: coal worker's pneumoconiosis, CWP, miner's cough, miner's lung
- Hypernym: pneumoconiosis
- Hyponyms: anthracosis, anthracosilicosis
Translations
[edit]coal dust pneumoconiosis
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