A respiratory disease caused by inhaling coal dust mixed with silica dust, combining symptoms of anthracosis and silicosis.
From anthracis (Greek 'coal') + silica + -osis (Greek suffix for disease condition). This medical term emerged with industrial mining safety awareness.
Anthracosilicosis is the nightmare disease of coal miners—it's when you breathe coal dust AND silica dust together, creating a double lung disease that's worse than either alone, and it explains why mining was so deadly before safety regulations.
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