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n. - Lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust.

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  • Early stages of the disease are known as anthracosis, which is a slow-acting, chronic disease that takes one or two decades to cause symptoms, but its effects can be...
  • Other health hazards specific to underground coal mining include coal dust, which can cause ‘coal worker’s pneumoconiosis’ or anthracosis, often combined with silicosis.
  • Very minute, inorganic foreign bodies may become encysted as in anthracosis.
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