Asbestosis

Definition: Asbestosis

Asbestosis

Noun

1. Lung disease caused by inhaling asbestos particles.

Specialty Definition: Asbestosis

Domain	Definition
Environment	A disease associated with inhalation of asbestos fibers. The disease makes breathing progressively more difficult and can be fatal. (references)
Insurance	A lung disorder caused by constant inhalation of asbestos particles. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A lung disease caused by breathing asbestos dust. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Asbestosis

Synonym: Pneumoconiosis. (additional references)

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Crosswords: Asbestosis

English words defined with "asbestosis": asbestos. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Asbestosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (asbestos).

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Commercial Usage: Asbestosis

Domain	Title
Books	Asbestos and asbestosis : a medical subject survey dictionary and research index with bibliography (reference) Asbestosis : a comprehensive bibliography (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Asbestosis

"Asbestosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Asbestosis" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	17	85,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Asbestosis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
asbestosis	375
asbestosis symptom	7
asbestosis treatment	5
asbestosis lawyer	4
asbestosis disease	3
asbestosis claim	3
asbestosis mesothelioma	3
asbestosis lawsuit	2
asbestosis enfermedades laborales pulmonares y	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Asbestosis

Language		Translations for "asbestosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		asbestose (amianthosis). (various references)

Dutch		asbestosis (amianthosis), asbestose (amianthosis). (various references)

Finnish		asbestoosi (amianthosis). (various references)

French		asbestose. (various references)

German		Asbeststaublungenerkrankung (amianthosis), Asbeststaublunge (amianthosis), Asbestosis pulmonum (amianthosis), Asbestose (amianthosis), Asbestlunge (amianthosis), Bergflachslunge (amianthosis). (various references)

Greek		πνευμοκονίωσις εξ αμιάντου (amianthosis), αμιαντίασις (amianthosis). (various references)

Italian		asbestosi polmonare (amianthosis), asbestosi (amianthosis). (various references)

Pig Latin		asbestosisay

Portuguese		asbestose pulmonar (amianthosis), asbestose (amianthosis, fire-brick, fireclay), amiantose (amianthosis). (various references)

Russian		асбестоз. (various references)

Spanish		asbestosis pulmonar (amianthosis), asbestosis (amianthosis). (various references)

Swedish		asbestos. (various references)

Ukrainian		азбестоз. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Asbestosis

Misspellings
	"Asbestosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: athetosis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Asbestosis"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "asbestosis" (pronounced a'sbe'stō"si's)
4	-ō" s i' s	endometriosis, osmosis, osteoporosis.
3	-s i' s	basis, Cassis, electrophoresis, emphasis, lexis, lysis, oasis, paralysis, parenthesis, pertussis, praxis, Pyxis, sepsis, Telesis.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Asbestosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-o-s-s-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: asbestos, bassists, bossiest, sassiest.
	-3 letters: abioses, assists, bassets, bassist, biasses, bossies, sassies, siestas, tassies.
	-4 letters: assess, assets, assist, basest, basses, basset, bassos, bastes, beasts, besots, biases, biotas, boasts, boites, bosses, obsess, sabots, sasses, siesta, sobeit, stases, stasis, tasses, tassie, tobies, tosses.
	-5 letters: abets, asses, asset, baits, bases, basis, bassi, basso, baste, basts, bates, beast.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-o-s-s-s-s-t"
	+4 letters: abstemiousness.
	+5 letters: ambitiousnesses, biosystematists, obstinatenesses.
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