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collier(dictionary)
collier(dictionary)
collier's lung(medicine)
Collier's sign(medicine)
Grim the Collier(dictionary)
Collier, James(medicine)
Collier's tract(medicine)
Collier's tucked lid sign(medicine)

collier's lung (medicine) and butterfly fragment (medicine)


collier's lung (medicine)


collier's lung -->
anthracosis
Pneumonoconiosis from accumulation of carbon from inhaled smoke or coal dust in the lungs.

See: pneumomelanosis.

Synonym: collier's lung, melanedema, miner's lung.

Origin: anthraco-+ G. -osis, condition


butterfly fragment (medicine)


butterfly fragment


A broad triangular fragment that is commonly present in comminuted fractures of the diaphysis.