Path. [f. mod.L. tobac-um TOBACCO + -OSIS.] Disease of the lungs produced by the inhalation of tobacco dust.
1879. Buck, Hygiene, II. 43. There are but two autopsies of tobacco-workers on record which could be considered cases of tabacosis.
1898. Syd. Soc. Lex., Tabacosis,… produced by the inhalation of dry vegetable fibre (especially cotton). Properly the form due to inhalation of tobacco dust.
