pneumoconiosis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of particulate matter. countable,uncountable
    — Zhang Haichao was twenty-eight when he got pneumoconiosis. He was fit and well before he started working at an abrasive-materials factory in Xinmi, not far from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, where he comes from. On the job, he inhaled a huge amount of dust every day. In the second half of 2007, he began to cough and felt short of breath.

词形变化

pneumoconioses plural

词源

Alteration of pneumonoconiosis, after pneumo- (“lung”). Compare French pneumoconiose. By surface analysis, pneumo- + coniosis (“disease caused by the inhalation of dust”).
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