| Asbestosis, silicosis and bird fancier's lung are examples of interstitial lung disease caused by inhalation of foreign material. |
| Death rates from silicosis, miners' phthisis, and tubercular diseases were very high on the Rand. |
| Many people became miners to make a living and thousands died of miner's diseases such as black lung and silicosis. |
| For those that don't know, silicosis is an occupational lung disease that can be fatal. |
| He had worked in a brickyard for years and got silicosis from the dust in his lungs. |
| The breathing of coal and rock dust causes black lung, the common name given to the lung diseases pneumoconiosis and silicosis. |
