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.
    

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[Section of coal miner's lung showing severe pneumoconiosis] / J. Gough, J. Wentworth.

Miners' lung : a history of dust disease in British coal mining / edited by Arthur J. McIvor and Ronald Johnston.

The pneumonokonioses (silicosis) : literature and laws of 1934 international abstracts, extracts and reviews of the pneumonokonioses and their associated diseases and subjects / by George G. Davis, Ella M. Salmonsen, Joseph L. Earlywine.

National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies

The pneumoconiosis problem : with emphasis on the role of the radiologist / Eugene P. Pendergrass.

Lung dust lesions versus tuberculosis / by Lewis Gregory Cole.

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Miners' lung : a history of dust disease in British coal mining / edited by Arthur J. McIvor and Ronald Johnston.

The pneumonokonioses (silicosis) : literature and laws of 1934 international abstracts, extracts and reviews of the pneumonokonioses and their associated diseases and subjects / by George G. Davis, Ella M. Salmonsen, Joseph L. Earlywine.

National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies

The pneumoconiosis problem : with emphasis on the role of the radiologist / Eugene P. Pendergrass.

Lung dust lesions versus tuberculosis / by Lewis Gregory Cole.