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Definition of Anthracosis

1. Noun. Lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust.

Definition of Anthracosis

1. n. A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.

Medical Definition of Anthracosis

1. Pneumonoconiosis from accumulation of carbon from inhaled smoke or coal dust in the lungs. See: pneumomelanosis. Synonym: collier's lung, melanedema, miner's lung. Origin: anthraco-+ G. -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Anthracosis

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"The Intestinal Origin of Pulmonary anthracosis. ... of India ink they were able to demonstrate an anthracosis of the lungs and the tracheobronchial glands, ..."

2. Papers on the Influence of Smoke on Health by Benson Ambrose Cohoe, William Ludlow Holman, Samuel Reese Haythorn, Charles Howard Marcy, Paul Shuey (1914)
"The histological evidences as to the disease importance of anthracosis of the lungs, ... The association of anthracosis and tuberculosis; and III. ..."

3. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1867)
"anthracosis is primarily determined by the inhalation of carbonaceous particles. " 2. That, in the instance of the coal miner, while capable of being ..."

4. The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1838)
"With respect to black expectoration in cases of anthracosis, I may refer to the instructive paper by Dr William Thomson, in the London Medico-Chirurgical ..."

5. Clinical Diagnosis: The Bacteriological, Chemical, and Microscopical by Rudolf Jaksch von Wartenhorst (1899)
"anthracosis of the Lung.—The sputum of tobacco-smokers and those who ... In a typical case of anthracosis the sputum ranges in colour from dark brown to ..."

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