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anthracosis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun anthracosis has 1 sense
- anthracosis(n = noun.state) black lung, black lung disease, coal miner's lung - lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust; Array is a kind of pneumoconiosis, pneumonoconiosis
CIDE DICTIONARY
anthracosis, n. [NL. See Anthrax.].
A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis . See also the related conditions pneumomelanosis and pneumoconiosis (black lung). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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