occupational lung disease

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occupational lung disease,

any of a group of abnormal conditions of the lungs caused by the inhalation of dusts, fumes, gases, or vapors in an environment where a person works. See also chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, metal fume fever, occupational asthma, silo filler's disease.

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