Definition of Occupational 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).

Exact synonyms: Industrial Disease
Generic synonyms: Disease

Definition of Occupational disease

1. Noun. Any chronic ailment that occurs as a result of work or occupational activity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Occupational disease

1. A morbid condition resulting from exposure to an agent during the usual performance of one's occupation. Compare: industrial disease. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Occupational Disease

occupance
occupancies
occupancy
occupancy rate
occupant
occupants
occupate
occupated
occupates
occupation
occupation licence
occupation license
occupational
occupational deafness
occupational dentistry
occupational disease
occupational diseases
occupational exposure
occupational group
occupational groups
occupational hazard
occupational hazards
occupational health
occupational health nursing
occupational health services
occupational lung disease
occupational medicine
occupational name
occupational neurosis
occupational safety and health act

Literary usage of Occupational disease

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"In exactly the same way if we adopt an amendment for compensation for occupational disease, we shall have gone a long step to prevent occupational diseases ..."

2. Conditions of Labor in American Industries: A Summarization of the Results by William Jett Lauck, Edgar Sydenstricker (1917)
"The employment of women, particularly married women, in industry under modern conditions of work. occupational disease Hazards There is no longer any doubt ..."

3. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1914)
"He accompanies his carefully presented statistical material, obtained from a study conducted under the occupational disease Fellowship of the Otho SA ..."

4. The Law of Workmen's Compensation, Rules of Procedure, Tables, Forms by William Richard Schneider (1922)
"... and sought recovery of damages in a common-law action, the court said that the question as to whether an occupational disease was covered by the Iowa ..."

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