Medical Definition of Coniosis
1. Any disease or morbid condition caused by dust. Origin: G. Konis, dust (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coniosis
Literary usage of Coniosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... coniosis. During the same year the number of special hardship allowances in
payment increased from 101400 to 107700. The annual number of awards of ..."
2. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1921)
"It would seem that many densities are being diagnosed as tuberculosis which should
be considered as densities of pneumo- coniosis. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. ..."
3. The Portland Survey: A Textbook on City School Administration Based on a by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1915)
"He has dared to name it coniosis, that is, ill health resulting from being " full
of dust." Aside from the distress of noise and the dust troubles, ..."
4. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"These processes may be significantly involved in the mechanisms of pneumo- coniosis
and carcinogenesis induced by mineral particles. to enhanced lung injury ..."
5. A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1900)
"See i'ncu mo-coniosis. \LK-STONES. Gouty concretions, resembling half-dried
mortar, found under the skin about the joints chiefly of the fingers and toes, ..."
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