silicosis

From Late Latin silica +‎ -osis.

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• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

silicosis (countable and uncountable, plural silicoses)

1. (pathology) A disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of crystalline silica dust. [from late 19th c.]

   Synonym: miner's disease (sometimes synonymous)

   Hypernyms: pneumoconiosis < disease < condition

   Hyponyms: pneumosilicosis, potter's rot

   • 1963, Phil Ochs, “Hazard, Kentucky”:

     Well, minin’ is a hazard in Hazard, Kentucky, and if you ain’t minin’ there, well, my friends, you’re awful lucky, ‘Cause if you don’t get silicosis, or pay that’s just atrocious, you’ll be screamin’ for a union that will care

• IPA^(key): /siliˈkosis/ [si.liˈko.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: si‧li‧co‧sis

silicosis f

1. silicosis

• “silicosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024