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Occupational Diseases > Pneumoconiosis
Respiratory Tract Diseases > Lung Diseases > Lung Diseases, Interstitial > Pneumoconiosis
Respiratory Tract Diseases > Lung Diseases > Lung Injury > Pneumoconiosis
Wounds and Injuries > Thoracic Injuries > Lung Injury > Pneumoconiosis

Preferred term

Pneumoconiosis  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Bagassosis

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; index specific pneumoconiosis for which there is no MeSH term here + substance yielding dust, as pneumoconiosis in gold mining: PNEUMOCONIOSIS (IM) + GOLD (IM) + MINING (IM); do not coordinate with OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

Scope note

  • A diffuse parenchymal lung disease caused by inhalation of dust and by tissue reaction to their presence. These inorganic, organic, particulate, or vaporized matters usually are inhaled by workers in their occupational environment, leading to the various forms (ASBESTOSIS; BYSSINOSIS; and others). Similar air pollution can also have deleterious effects on the general population.

History note

  • 66; BAGASSOSIS was see under PNEUMOCONIOSIS 1969-83

In other languages

  • pölykeuhko

    Finnish

  • määrittämätön pölykeuhko
  • ospecificerad pneumokonios (dammlunga)
  • pneumoconiosis
  • pneumoconiosis non specificata
  • pneumokonioosi
  • pölykeuhkosairaus
  • Dammlunga

    Swedish

  • Pneumokonios

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011009

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