English

Alternative forms

• pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-coniosis
• pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis
• P45

Noun

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis ‎(plural pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses)

1. (nonce word) A factitious disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from eruption of a volcano.
   • 1980 March, Kerr, Lorin E., “Black Lung”, in Journal of Public Health Policy, volume 1, number 1, JSTOR 3342357, page 50:

     Call it miner's asthma, silicosis, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or black lung—they are all dust diseases with the same symptoms.

   • 1998 August 27, Smokey, “Lament for a Lung Disease”, in talk.bizarre, Usenet, message-ID <6s3r8o$brt$1@camel15.mindspring.com>:

     I say that it must be the silica dust
     That we breathed through our mouths and our noses
     That brought pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

   • 2002 December 18, Pod, “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”, in alt.fan.scarecrow, Usenet, message-ID <iHSL9.2091$h43.295898@stones>:

     It's either pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, or a bad cough.

   • 2011 April 28, Stradtman, Kurt D., Am I the Person My Mother Warned Me About?: A Four-year College Experience ... Only the Good Parts, Xlibris, ISBN 9781462862887, LCCN 2011906469, page 90:

     I still can't watch House M.D. and not have my mind wonder […] Even I can fear of^[sic] having Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis after watching it.

Quotations

For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Coordinate terms

• black lung
• potter's rot
• miner cough

Hypernyms

• pneumoconiosis
• silicosis

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References

1. 1 2 The Oxford English Dictionary [Second Edition]