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Definition of Industrial disease
1. Noun. Disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts).
Definition of Industrial disease
1. Noun. disease or disability caused by employment, such as repetitive acts or exposure to chemicals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Industrial disease
1. A morbid condition resulting from exposure to an agent discharged by a commercial enterprise into the environment. Compare: occupational disease. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Industrial Disease
Literary usage of Industrial disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Work: Essays on the Meeting-ground of Doctor and Social Worker by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"... CHAPTER VI THE SOCIAL WORKER'S INVESTIGATION OF FATIGUE, REST, AND INDUSTRIAL
DISEASE Fatigue and ..."
2. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Prevention of industrial disease.—Each factory has its own occupational disease
problem, and the analysis of this problem and the proper way of meeting it ..."
3. Bradbury's Workmen's Compensation and State Insurance Law by Harry Bower Bradbury (1914)
"Re-current attacks of industrial disease. Where a workman had had two attacks of
an industrial disease but after recovery from the second one his employers ..."
4. Dangerous Trades: The Historical, Social, and Legal Aspects of Industrial by Thomas Oliver (1902)
"By the term occupation or industrial disease we mean, briefly, ... There is
nothing of the nature of an acute illness in industrial disease comparable with ..."
5. Industrial Medicine and Surgery by Harry Edgar Mock (1919)
"Therefore while tuberculosis may be classed as an industrial disease yet many
conditions in industry have been responsible for maintaining and spreading it. ..."
6. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"It was held that the effects of the accident, the industrial disease, still continued
... But then it was said that this is no doubt an industrial disease, ..."
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