black lung

black lung
    n 1: lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust [syn:
         {anthracosis}, {black lung}, {black lung disease}, {coal
         miner's lung}]
    

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.]
    

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "black lung":
      Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, Minamata disease, acute bronchitis,
      adenoiditis, altitude sickness, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anoxemia,
      anoxia, anoxic anoxia, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, anthrax,
      asbestosis, 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, immersion foot, influenza, itai, jet lag, la grippe,
      laryngitis, lead poisoning, lipoid pneumonia, lobar pneumonia,
      lung cancer, lung fever, mercury poisoning, 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