• 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.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
• An occupational lung disorder caused by inhalation of dust particles. It is characterized by bilateral interstitial lung infiltrates. Representative examples include asbestosis, silicosis, anthracosis, and talc pneumoconiosis.
  NCI
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Any of a group of lung diseases resulting from inhalation of particles of industrial substances.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• The pneumoconioses are a group of interstitial lung diseases, mostly of occupational origin, caused by the inhalation of mineral or metal dusts. This topic will cover 3 of the major diseases in this category: silicosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung disease), and chronic beryllium disease. Asbestosis, another major type of...
  Epocrates
  Athenahealth, Inc., 2019
• Pneumoconiosis, any of many lung diseases caused by the inhalation of a variety of organic or inorganic dusts or chemical irritants, usually over a prolonged period of time. The type and severity of disease depends on the composition of the dust; small quantities of some substances, notably silica...
  Encyclopedia Britannica
  Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025