Diseases

Pneumoconiosis

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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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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2 entry terms
  • Pneumoconioses
  • Bagassosis

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34 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

general or unspecified; prefer specifics; index specific pneumoconiosis for which there is no MeSH term here + substance yielding dust, as pneumoconiosis in gold mining: PNEUMOCONIOSIS (IM) + GOLD (IM) + MINING (IM); do not coordinate with OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

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History Note

66; BAGASSOSIS was see under PNEUMOCONIOSIS 1969-83

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  1. C08w.381.483w.581w
  2. C08w.381.520.702w
  3. C24w.800w

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WF 654

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Pneumoconiosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011009. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011009
  2. Pneumoconiosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumoconiosis
  3. Pneumoconiosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q651223