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Pneumoconiosis
Domain: Health and safety at work => Diseases/accidents
Grammatical category: 
Noun
Grammar notes: 
Uncountable
Definition: 
The term pneumoconiosis refers to a group of fibrotic lung diseases (including asbestosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis and silicosis) caused by the inhalation and retention in the lungs of dusts containing irritant mineral or metallic particles.
Definition source: 
Jones 2003 adapted from HSE website: http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/coal.htm.
European legislation: 
Directive 89/391/EEC; Rec. 2003/670/EC, 90/326/EEC
British legislation: 
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
Contains: 
Asbestosis, Silicosis
Contained in: 
Occupational disease
Concept diagram: 
4.1 Occupational diseases
It: 
= Pneumoconiosi
Fr: 
= Pneumoconiose
De: 
= Pneumokoniose
 
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