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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).
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
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 ..."