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silicosis

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of crystalline silica dust.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: miner's disease

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pneumoconiosis, disease, condition

2

noun

Meaning 2

a lung disease caused by inhaling particles of silica or quartz or slate

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pneumoconiosis, pneumonoconiosis

History

Etymology

From Late Latin silica + -osis.

Across languages

Translations

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: silikose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Albanian: silikoza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Arabic: سَحَار سِيلِيسِيّ (saḥār sīlīsiyy) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Armenian: սիլիկոզ (silikoz) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Bashkir: силикоз (silikoz) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Basque: silikosi — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Belarusian: сілікоз (silikóz) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Bulgarian: силикоза (silikoza) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Catalan: silicosi — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Chinese Cantonese: 硅肺 (gwai1 fai3) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Chinese Cantonese: 矽肺 (zik6 fai3) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Chinese Mandarin: 硅肺 (guīfèi) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Chinese Mandarin: 矽肺 (xīfèi) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Chinese Mandarin: 矽肺病 (xīfèi bìng, xìfèi bìng) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Czech: silikóza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Danish: silikose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Dutch: silicose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Esperanto: silikozo — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Estonian: silikoos — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Finnish: silikoosi — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Finnish: kivipölykeuhko — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • French: silicose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Galician: silicose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • German: Silikose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Greek: πυριτίαση (pyritíasi) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Hindi: सिलिकामयता (silikāmaytā) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Hungarian: szilikózis — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Ido: silikoza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Indonesian: silikosis — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Irish: sileacóis — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Italian: silicosi — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Japanese: 珪肺 (keihai) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Kazakh: силикоз (silikoz) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Korean: 규폐증 (gyupyejeung) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Kyrgyz: силикоз (silikoz) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Latvian: silikoze — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Lithuanian: silikozė — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Macedonian: силикоза (silikoza) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Norwegian Bokmål: silikose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: silikose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Picard: silicose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Polish: krzemica — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Polish: silikoza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Polish: sylikoza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Polish: pylica krzemowa — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Portuguese: silicose — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Romanian: silicoză — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Russian: силико́з (silikóz) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Serbo-Croatian: силико́за — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Serbo-Croatian: silikóza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Slovak: silikóza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Slovene: silikoza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Lower Sorbian: silikoza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Upper Sorbian: silikoza — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Spanish: silicosis — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Swedish: silikos — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Swedish: stendammslunga — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Tajik: силикоз (silikoz) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Tatar: силикоз (siliqoz) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Turkish: silikozis — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Ukrainian: силіко́з (sylikóz) — silica dust pneumoconiosis
  • Welsh: silicosis — silica dust pneumoconiosis
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