What is the scientific name for 'black lung disease'?

Question

Black lung disease is cause by the inhalation of scilica dust. What is the scientific name for this disease?

Answer 1

Pneumoconiosis, also known as miner's lung, which is a lung condition caused by the inhalation of dust, characterized by formation of nodular fibrotic changes in lungs.

Many substances can cause pneumoconiosis including asbestos, silica, talc, kaolinite and other metal compounds.

Depending on the type of dust, variants of the disease are considered. For example there are silicosis, also known as grinders' disease; and pneumosilicosis, which is caused by the inhalation of the dust of stone, sand, or flint containing silica. Because many common minerals contain silica, there are different types of silicosis.

Answer 2

Not at all. Coal mining is a very dangerous business. Miners also often have worse respiratory problems than smokers do. That was the least they could do after they put your father's health at risk for so many years.

Answer 3

"Black lung is a legal term describing man-made, occupational lung diseases that are contracted by prolonged breathing of coal mine dust. Call it miner's asthma, silicosis, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or black lung—they are all dust diseases with the same symptoms."

Answer 4

Pneumoconiosis

Answer 5

Asbestos, asbestosis, mesothelioma, lung cancer, interstitial fibrosis, chrysotile, amphibole, asbestos fibers, ...

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Answer 6

Was gonna ask this too

Answer 7

coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) or anthracosis

Answer 8

It depends..

Answer 9

lung cancer

Answer 10

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCON NIOSIS