Definition of "pneumoconiosis"
pneumoconiosis
noun
countable and uncountable, plural pneumoconioses
(pathology) A disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of particulate matter.
Quotations
Zhang Haichao was twenty-eight when he got pneumoconiosis. He was fit and well before he started working at an abrasive-materials factory in Xinmi, not far from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, where he comes from. On the job, he inhaled a huge amount of dust every day. In the second half of 2007, he began to cough and felt short of breath.
2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books, page 86
Wu Dengfan, a 40-year-old farmer from Gulang county in Gansu who worked at a gold mine close to the Mongolian border from 1996 to 2006, had a similar experience.“We even preferred not to wear masks inside the mine, because it made breathing even more difficult,” said Wu, who has stage II pneumoconiosis. “When we finished our work and came out of the mine, each of us was completely covered in dust.”
2018 January 13, Alice Yan, “These migrant workers helped China prosper. Now they’re dying and not getting the help they need”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 13 January 2018, People & Culture