Usually means: Respiratory disease from coal dust.
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  1. black lung: Merriam-Webster
  2. black lung: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. black lung: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. black lung: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. black-lung, black lung: Wordnik
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  8. black lung: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. black lung: Infoplease Dictionary
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  1. black lung: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. black lung: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Black lung: Merck Manuals
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  1. black lung: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (black lung)

noun:  (pathology) A chronic disease of the lungs caused by the long-term inhalation of coal dust.

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