pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

alternative pneumono­ultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­koniosis · alternative pneumon­ultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis

1. nonce worduncountableA disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.

   It's either pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, or a bad cough.

   2002 December 18, Pod, “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”, in alt.fan.scarecrow (Usenet), message-ID <iHSL9.2091$h43.295898@stones>

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   Call it miner's asthma, silicosis, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or black lung—they are all dust diseases with the same symptoms.

   1980 March, Lorin E. Kerr, “Black Lung”, in Journal of Public Health Policy, volume 1, number 1, →JSTOR, page 50

   I say that it must be the silica dust That we breathed through our mouths and our noses That brought pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

   1998 August 27, Smokey, “Lament for a Lung Disease”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), message-ID <6s3r8o$brt$1@camel15.mindspring.com>

   I still can't watch House M.D. and not have my mind wonder[…] Even I can fear of^([sic]) having Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis after watching it.

   2011 April 28, Kurt D. Stradtman, Am I the Person My Mother Warned Me About?: A Four-year College Experience ... Only the Good Parts, Xlibris, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 90

   Regarding the lack of funding and attention do you agree that there should be parity of esteem between mental conditions such as body dysmorphia and physical conditions such as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

   2017 July 31, Michael Bryan, quotee, “Boy, 16, uses 'longest word' in Parliament”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2017