what is that really long word that is a lung disease coal miners get?
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I also searched it again and it came up with “PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPIC”. It is defined as “a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica (sandlike) dust, mostly found in volcanoes”.
LOL, i did another search and it came up with THE LONGEST WORD IN ANY ENGLISH DICTIONARY (45letters) it also had the same meaning just above. It was spelt “PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICO-
VOLCANOCONEOSIS”
Hopefully those ways help you out in some way.
WOW i just saw that word you can spell, LOL i dont even know what that means. Im now going to GOOGLE it and learn the meaning.
(also spelled -koniosis) is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “a factitious word alleged to mean ‘a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust usually found in volcanoes’.” It was coined to serve as supposedly the longest English word. The more general and widely used term for this condition is pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung disease.
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oop! answerer above is correct —
i’ll write it again here with a break so it will show up:
pneumonoultramicroscopic silicovolcanoconiosis
the word was originally invented as a joke.
for a list of diseases a coal miner gets.
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