pneumonoconiosis
pneumonoconiosis is the alternative form of pneumoconiosis.
Meaning of pneumoconiosis
Noun
pneumoconiosis (countable and uncountable, plural pneumoconioses)
- 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 pneumonoconiosis
| plural | pneumonoconioses |
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Origin of pneumonoconiosis
From German Pneumonokoniosis (1867), from Pneumono- (“lung”) + Ancient Greek κόνις (kónis, “dust”) + German -osis (“disease”). In the earliest attestation (1878), after French pneumonokoniose (1878 or earlier). By surface analysis, pneumono- (“lung”) + coniosis (“disease caused by the inhalation of dust”).
Words formed from pneumonoconiosis
Questions about pneumonoconiosis
- What is pneumonoconiosis the alternative form of?
- Pneumonoconiosis is the alternative form of pneumoconiosis.
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