what is pneumoconosis?!
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Pneumoconiosis is a chronic disease of the lungs. Primarily an occupational disease of miners, sandblasters, and metal grinders, it is a result of repeated inhalation of dusts, including iron oxides, silicates, and carbonates. Particles collect in the lungs and become sites for the formation of fibrous nodules. As the disease progresses, fibrous tissue increasingly replaces elastic lung tissue. Loss of lung function is signaled by shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, and difficulty in expectorating. A heart deficiency called cor pulmonale may develop in severe cases. Sufferers are particularly vulnerable to infectious lung diseases such as tuberculosis. Pneumoconiosis is incurable and treatment is purely symptomatic. Because the inhaled dusts cause darkening of the lung tissue, the disease is also known as black lung. Silicosis, the form of the disease prevalent among miners, is commonly called miner's lung.
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It pertains to dust in the lungs. I don't think the spelling of it is correct though.
Ok..i got out my medical terminology book from last quarter of college..pneumo=lung,air osis=abnormal condition. The only con I could find was a prefix that means together, but I dont think thats what it means. It it is, this word would mean an abnormal condition of the lungs being together. You read a medical term from the ending to the beginning. Check the spelling and if thats the correct spelling then thats your definition. If not let me know. Ill look it up.
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nursing student and also a paramedic
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