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pneumokoniosis

pneumokoniosis is the alternative form 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

Forms of pneumokoniosis

pluralpneumokonioses

Questions about pneumokoniosis

What is pneumokoniosis the alternative form of?
Pneumokoniosis is the alternative form of pneumoconiosis.

Words near pneumokoniosis in the dictionary

  1. pneumohaemothorax
  2. pneumohemopericardium
  3. pneumohemoperitoneum
  4. pneumohemothorax
  5. pneumokonioses
  6. pneumokoniosis
  7. pneumolancidin
  8. pneumolancidins
  9. pneumologic
  10. pneumological
  11. pneumologies

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