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Anthracosis

Anthracosis (anthracosis; Greek anthrakos, anthrax – coal + Greek slovoobraz. a suffix - Usis – diseases of noninflammatory character):

  1. Adjournment in bodies and fabrics of coal dust;
  2. Pneumoconiosis which developed because of regular inhalation of coal dust.
 
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