pneumoconiosis

From New Latin pneumoconiōsis, from Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, breath, spirit”) + κόνις (kónis, “dust”) +‎ -osis.

pneumoconiosis (countable and uncountable, plural pneumoconioses)

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

     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, he began to cough and felt short of breath.

• coalworker's pneumoconiosis
• coal worker's pneumoconiosis
• CWP
• black lung
• miner's cough
• anthracosilicosis
• silicosis
• asbestosis

• mesothelioma