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Black Lung Disease
Definition
Black lung disease is the common name for coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) or anthracosis, a lung disease of older workers in the coal industry, caused by inhalation, over many years, ...

 


What is black lung disease?
Black lung disease is a common name for any lung disease developing from inhaling coal dust. This name comes from the fact that those with the disease have lungs that look black instead of pink.

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Pneumoconiosis - chronic disease of the lungs. Primarily an occupational disease of miners, sandblasters, and metal grinders, it is a result of repeated inhalation of dusts, including iron oxides silicates and carb...

Black lung disease is a type of pneumoconiosis, a condition caused by inhaling certain forms of dust into the lungs.

Alternate Names : Black lung disease, Pneumoconiosis, Anthrosilicosis
Definition
Coal worker's pneumoconiosis is a lung disease that results from breathing in dust from coal, graphite, or man-made carbon over a long period of time.

Black lung disease, also known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), is caused by long exposure to coal dust.

Black lung disease: A chronic occupational lung disease contracted by the prolonged breathing of coal mine dust. The silica and carbon in the coal dust cause black lung disease.

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Anthracosis. [Appleton1904].
A chronic occupational lung disease contracted by the prolonged breathing of coal mine dust. The silica and carbon in the coal dust cause black lung disease.

Black lung disease is the common name for coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) or anthracosis, a lung disease of older workers in the coal industry, caused by inhalation, over many years, of small amounts of coal dust.

Black lung disease; Pneumoconiosis; Anthrosilicosis
Causes
Coal worker's pneumoconiosis occurs in two forms: simple and complicated (progressive massive fibrosis, or PMF).

Black lung disease; Pneumoconiosis; Anthrosilicosis
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Coal worker's pneumoconiosis occurs in two forms: simple and complicated (progressive massive fibrosis, or PMF).

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Safer workplaces: Work-related health problems, such as coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung), and silicosis -- common at the beginning of the century -- have come under better control.

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Also known as black lung disease, the condition, in severe cases, is characterized by scarring on the lungs (which often permanently damages the lungs and may lead to shortness of breath). About 2.

Coal worker's pneumoconiosis (or Black Lung disease) - caused by breathing in coal mine dust
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For more detailed information on the specific types of pneumoconiosis, please refer to: aluminosis, asbestosis, bagassosis, baritosis, berylliosis, black lung, coal miner's pneumoconiosis, siderosis, silicosis, and stannosis.

occupational disease n. A disease, such as byssinosis or black lung, resulting from the conditions of a person's work, trade, or
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Occupational lung diseases include asbestosis among asbestos miners and those who work with friable asbestos insulation, as well as black lung (coalworker's pneumoconiosis) among coal miners, ...

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In the case of lung cancer, tumors absorb more X-ray than the lungs, making them appear as a white mass in the middle of black lungs.

See also: Lung Disease, Pneumoconiosis, Symptom, Cancer, Fibrosis

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