'black lung' definitions:
Definition of 'black lung'
From: WordNet
noun
Lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust [syn: anthracosis, black lung, black lung disease, coal miner's lung]
Definition of 'black lung'
From: GCIDE
- black lung \black lung\ black lung disease \black lung disease\, n. (Med.) the popular name for a form of the chronic lung disease pneumoconiosis which is observed among coal miners, and is caused by the inhalation of coal dust. It is thus named because of the black appearance of the lungs (pneumomelanosis) of those affected with the disease. See also the related condition anthracosis. [PJC.]
Synonyms of 'black lung'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acute bronchitis,
- adenoiditis,
- altitude sickness,
- aluminosis,
- amygdalitis,
- anoxemia,
- anoxia,
- anoxic anoxia,
- anthracosilicosis,
- anthracosis,
- anthrax,
- asbestosis,
- Asiatic flu,
- asthma,
- atypical pneumonia,
- bituminosis,
- bronchial pneumonia,
- bronchiectasis,
- bronchiolitis,
- bronchitis,
- bronchopneumonia,
- caisson disease,
- catarrh,
- chalicosis,
- chilblain,
- chronic bronchitis,
- cold,
- collapsed lung,
- common cold,
- coniosis,
- coryza,
- croup,
- croupous pneumonia,
- decompression sickness,
- double pneumonia,
- dry pleurisy,
- emphysema,
- empyema,
- epidemic pleurodynia,
- fibrinous pneumonia,
- flu,
- frostbite,
- grippe,
- hay fever,
- Hong Kong flu,
- immersion foot,
- influenza,
- itai,
- jet lag,
- la grippe,
- laryngitis,
- lead poisoning,
- lipoid pneumonia,
- lobar pneumonia,
- lung cancer,
- lung fever,
- mercury poisoning,
- Minamata disease,
- motion sickness,
- pharyngitis,
- pleurisy,
- pleuritis,
- pneumococcal pneumonia,
- pneumoconiosis,
- pneumonia,
- pneumonic fever,
- pneumothorax,
- quinsy,
- radiation sickness,
- radionecrosis,
- red-out,
- rheum,
- siderosis,
- silicosis,
- sore throat,
- sunstroke,
- swine flu,
- the bends,
- the sniffles,
- the snuffles,
- tonsilitis,
- trench foot,
- virus pneumonia,
- wet pleurisy,
- whooping cough