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English
Etymology
From Late Latin silica + -osis.
Pronunciation
Noun
silicosis (countable and uncountable, plural silicoses)
- (pathology) A disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of crystalline silica dust.
- Synonym: miner's disease (sometimes synonymous)
- Hypernyms: pneumoconiosis; < disease; < condition
- 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), 矽肺病 (zh) (xīfèi bìng, xìfèi bìng)
- 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(硅肺症) (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
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Spanish
Noun
silicosis f
- silicosis
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