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black lung disease
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun black lung disease has 1 sense
- black lung disease(n = noun.state) anthracosis, black lung, coal miner's lung - lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust; Array is a kind of pneumoconiosis, pneumonoconiosis
CIDE DICTIONARY
black lung disease, n.
the popular name for a form of the chronic lung disease pneumoconiosis which is observed among coal miners, and is caused by the inhalation of coal dust. It is thus named because of the black appearance of the lungs (pneumomelanosis) of those affected with the disease. See also the related condition anthracosis. [PJC.]
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