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Definition: Silicosis |
SilicosisNoun1. A lung disease caused by inhaling particles of silica or quartz or slate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A type of pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of particles of silica, quartz, gannister or slate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Lung disease caused chiefly by inhaling rock dust from air drills b. A condition of massive fibrosis of the lungs marked by shortness of breath and resulting from prolonged inhalation of silica dusts by those--such as stonecutters, asbestos workers, miners--regularly exposed to such dusts. See also:pneumoconiosis; simple silicosis;mining disease. (references) |
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Crosswords: Silicosis |
| Specialty definitions using "silicosis": alveolar dust, alveolar subfraktion ♦ hard heading ♦ midget impinger ♦ Polyvinylpyridine N-Oxide ♦ respirable dust, respirable subfraction ♦ Sheffield grinders'disease, siliceous dust, silico-talcosis ♦ tonoko lung. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Silicosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (silicosis). |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Silicosis followed by tuberculosis is the typical story of this miner now pensioned. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr.. |  | At leLance to tunnel near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. Famous for "silicosis" scandal. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Worker Rights | China | Ten of the workers already have died from silicosis and the rest have contracted the disease. (references) |
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| "Silicosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Silicosis" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "silicosis": ochre silicosis ♦ sandblaster's silicosis. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "silicosis": silicosis-sufferer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "silicosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | силикоза. (various references) | |
Chinese | 矽肺. (various references) | |
Czech | silikóza. (various references) | |
Danish | stenlunge (dust consumption, grit consumption, silicatosis), silocose (dust consumption, grit consumption, silicatosis), silikose (dust consumption, grit consumption, silicatosis). (various references) | |
French | silicose (silicatosis). (various references) | |
German | Silikose (dust consumption, grit consumption, silicatosis). (various references) | |
Greek | πνευμονοκονίαση (pneumoconiosis). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אבקת ראות, צור ת. (various references) | |
Italian | silicosi (dust consumption, grit consumption, silicatosis). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilicosissay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | silicose (dust consumption, grit consumption, silicatosis). (various references) | |
Russian | силикоз. (various references) | |
Spanish | silicosis. (various references) | |
Swedish | silikos (potter's asthma, potter's phthisis, potters'asthma, potters'disease, potters'lung, potters'phthisis, potters'silicosis, pottery workers'silicosis, Sheffield grinders'disease, tonoko lung). (various references) | |
Turkish | silis tozundan kaynaklanan akciğer hastalığı, silikoz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | силікоз. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Silicosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: siliconix, sillicosis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-i-l-o-s-s-s" | |
-4 letters: coils, silos, soils. | |
-5 letters: coil, cols, coss, loci, loss, oils, sics, silo, soil, soli, sols. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-i-l-o-s-s-s" | |
+2 letters: solipsistic. | |
+3 letters: fascioliasis. | |
+5 letters: antisocialists, crossabilities, sociolinguists, solicitorships. | |
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