silicosis

English

Etymology

From Late Latin silica +‎ -osis.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Noun

silicosis (countable and uncountable, plural silicoses)

1. (pathology) A disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of crystalline silica dust. [from late 19th c.]

Hypernyms

• pneumoconiosis

Hyponyms

• pneumosilicosis
• potter's rot

Translations

silica dust pneumoconiosis

• Afrikaans: silikose
• Albanian: silikoza f
• Armenian: սիլիկոզ (hy) (silikoz)
• Bashkir: силикоз (silikoz)
• Basque: silikosi
• Belarusian: сілікоз m (silikóz)
• Bulgarian: силикоза f (silikoza)
• Catalan: silicosi f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 硅肺 (gwai¹ fai³), 矽肺 (zik⁶ fai³)

  Mandarin: 硅肺 (zh) (guīfèi), 矽肺 (zh) (xīfèi)

• Czech: silikóza f
• Danish: silikose c
• Dutch: silicose (nl) f
• Esperanto: silikozo
• Estonian: silikoos
• Finnish: silikoosi (fi), kivipölykeuhko (fi)
• French: silicose (fr) f
• Galician: silicose (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Silikose f
• Greek: πυριτίαση f (pyritíasi)
• Hindi: सिलिकामयता f (silikāmaytā)
• Hungarian: szilikózis (hu)
• Ido: silikoza (io)
• Indonesian: silikosis (id)
• Irish: sileacóis f
• Italian: silicosi (it) f
• Japanese: 珪肺 (ja) (けいはい, keihai)
• Kazakh: силикоз (silikoz)
• Korean: 규폐증 (ko) (gyupyejeung)
• Kyrgyz: силикоз (silikoz)
• Latvian: silikoze f
• Lithuanian: silikozė f
• Macedonian: силикоза f (silikoza)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: silikose m

  Nynorsk: silikose m

• Picard: silicose f
• Polish: krzemica f, silikoza f, sylikoza f, pylica krzemowa f
• Portuguese: silicose (pt) f
• Romanian: silicoză (ro) f
• Russian: силико́з (ru) m (silikóz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: силико́за f

  Roman: silikóza (sh) f

• Slovak: silikóza f
• Slovene: silikoza f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: silikoza f

  Upper Sorbian: silikoza f

• Spanish: silicosis (es) f
• Swedish: silikos (sv) c, stendammslunga c
• Tajik: силикоз (silikoz)
• Tatar: силикоз (silikoz)
• Turkish: silikozis
• Ukrainian: силіко́з m (sylikóz)
• Welsh: silicosis m