Coal-Workers pneumoconiosis:
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A lung disease caused by exposure to coal dust, which may produce; 1) asymptomatic anthracosis 2) simple coal-workers pneumoconiosis. (characterized by coal macules and nodules containing carbon-laden macrophages), with little or no pulmonary dysfunction or 3) complicated coal-workers pneumoconiosis or progressive massive fibrosis: which is black scars in the lungs causing compromised pulmonary function