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pneumoconiosis (medicine)


pneumoconiosis
<chest medicine> Fibrosis and scarring of the lungs secondary to the repeated inhalation of dust associated with some occupation.

Examples include silica, asbestos and coal dust exposure.


urobilin (iou)



urobilin noun. Also urobiline. L19.
[from URO-1 + Latin bilis bile: see -IN1.]
Biochemistry. Any of several brown bile pigments formed from urobilinogen and excreted chiefly in the faeces.
urobi'linogen noun any of several colourless tetrapyrrole compounds produced by the reduction of bilirubin, esp. by bacterial action in the gut L19.
urobilinu'ria noun (Medicine) an abnormal condition of the urine characterized by an excess of urobilin L19.