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pneumoconioses

pneumoconioses is the plural of pneumoconiosis.

Meaning of pneumoconiosis

Noun

pneumoconiosis (countable and uncountable, plural pneumoconioses)

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

Origin of pneumoconioses

See pneumoconiosis § Etymology; plural suffix -oses.

Questions about pneumoconioses

What is pneumoconioses the plural of?
Pneumoconioses is the plural of pneumoconiosis.

Words near pneumoconioses in the dictionary

  1. pneumococcosis
  2. pneumococcus
  3. pneumocolon
  4. pneumocolonography
  5. pneumocolons
  6. pneumoconioses
  7. pneumoconiosis
  8. pneumoconiotic
  9. pneumocyclicin
  10. pneumocystiasis
  11. pneumocystic

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