miner's disease


an·cy·lo·sto·mi·a·sis

(an'si-lō-stō-mī'ă-sis, an'ki-), Hookworm disease caused by Ancylostoma duodenale and characterized by eosinophilia, anemia, emaciation, dyspepsia, and, in children with severe chronic infections, swelling of the abdomen with mental and physical maldevelopment. Synonym(s): ankylostomiasis, intertropical hyphemia, tropic hyphemia, miner's disease, tunnel disease, uncinariasis

miner's disease

(1) Ancylostomiasis. 
(2) Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, see there.
(3) Miners’ nystagmus, see there.