Meaning of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis | Babel Free

Definitions

A disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.

nonce-word, uncountable

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

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

“It's either pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, or a bad cough.”

“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.”

“Regarding the lack of funding and attention do you agree that there should be parity of esteem between mental conditions such as body dysmorphia and physical conditions such as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.”

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