tabacosisn.
/tabəˈkəʊsɪs/ Pathology.
Disease of the lungs produced by the inhalation of tobacco dust.
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stone-cutter's disease or phthisis1540
phthisis1821
black lung1837
anthracosis1838
shoddy fever1851
potter's consumption1863
siderosis1869
collier's phthisis1871
iron lung1872
chalicosis1878
pneumonoconiosis1878
tabacosis1879
byssinosis1881
pneumoconiosis1881
silicosis1881
potter's rot1895
fur-fever1905
stonemason's lung1905
asbestosis1927
anthracosilicosis1929
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis1935
bagassosis1941
bagasse1943
berylliosis1943
thesaurosis1958
1879 A. H. Buck Treat. Hygiene II. 43 There are but two autopsies of tobacco-workers on record which could be considered cases of tabacosis.
1898 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Tabacosis,..produced by the inhalation of dry vegetable fibre (especially cotton). Properly the form due to inhalation of tobacco dust.
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