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ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of particulates; silico-: from Latin, silicon; volcano: from Latin, referring to volcano; coni: from ancient Greek (κόνις, kónis) which means dust-osis: from ancient Greek, suffix to indicate a medical condition
word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused--- there is a extra apostpohy it need to be remover from this sentence 96.225.150.231 04:36, 18 January 2011 (UTC) Not done: that's not an apostrophe, it's an opening single quotation mark.
Osorno volcano in Chile is an example of a well-developed stratocone.. Stratocones are large cone-shaped volcanoes made up of lava flows, explosively erupted pyroclastic rocks, and igneous intrusives that are typically centered around a cylindrical vent.
Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust. It is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs.
Pneumoconiosis is the general term for a class of interstitial lung disease where inhalation of dust (for example, ash dust, lead particles, pollen grains etc) has caused interstitial fibrosis.
When it does reach the surface, however, a volcano is formed. Thus subduction zones are bordered by chains of volcanoes called volcanic arcs . Typical examples are the volcanoes in the Pacific Ring of Fire , such as the Cascade Volcanoes or the Japanese Archipelago , or the eastern islands of Indonesia .
A lung nodule or pulmonary nodule is a relatively small focal density in the lung.A solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) or coin lesion, [1] is a mass in the lung smaller than three centimeters in diameter.
On Earth, the Rayleigh number for convection within Earth's mantle is estimated to be of order 10 7, which indicates vigorous convection.This value corresponds to whole mantle convection (i.e. convection extending from the Earth's surface to the border with the core).