Black lung disease (medical condition): A lung disease caused by breathing in coal dust. It often occurs in people employed in the coal industry. Generally symptoms stop once the exposure ceases.
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Pneumoconiosis:
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Black lung disease: An often asymptomatic chronic lung disease caused by inhaling coal tust which then deposits in the lungs. Also called anthracosis, coal worker's pneumoconiosis or miner's pneumoconiosis.
Black lung disease: lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust.
Source: WordNet 2.1
These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Black lung disease:
Black lung disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Black lung disease, or a subtype of Black lung disease,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Black lung disease: Another name for Pneumoconiosis (or close medical condition association).
»Introduction: Pneumoconiosis
»Symptoms of Pneumoconiosis
»Causes of Pneumoconiosis
»Treatments for Pneumoconiosis
Black lung disease: Black lung disease is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
Some of the causes of Black lung disease are included in the list below:
See full list of 6 causes of Black lung disease (Pneumoconiosis)
Some of the symptoms of Black lung disease incude:
See full list of 14 symptoms of Black lung disease (Pneumoconiosis)
Treatments for Black lung disease (Pneumoconiosis) include:
Read more about treatments for Black lung disease
Treatment of Black lung disease: For more treatment information about Black lung disease, see treatment of Pneumoconiosis (Black lung disease)
These medical disease topics may be related to Black lung disease:
Source: Diseases Database
Source - NIH
Source - WordNet 2.1
Source - WordNet 2.1
The following list attempts to classify Black lung disease into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: WordNet 2.1
Source: Diseases Database
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