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What is a pneumoconiosis?

What is a pneumoconiosis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of particulate matter.
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My father died from mineworkers ' pneumoconiosis and my father-in-law died of emphysema.
Coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease, is caused by inhaling coal dust, typically dust produced in coal mining.
My father died from mineworkers' pneumoconiosis and my father-in-law died of emphysema.
That was a claim by several steel dressers who were suffering from pneumoconiosis attributable to defective ventilation in a factory.
Repeated and prolonged inhalation of graphite or carbon dusts may cause pulmonary fibrosis, emphysema, and pneumoconiosis.
Tuberculosis, neoplasm of lung, sarcoidosis, pneumoconiosis and pulmonary fibrosis require separate adjudication.

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