industrial disease

noun
1.
Origin of industrial disease
1905-10
Examples from the web for industrial disease
  • In the case of an industrial disease, the insured must have contracted a prescribed disease during the course of employment.
  • The cure of the industrial disease has been the old familiar one.
  • We still haven't caught up with the sicknesses of industrial disease.
  • Report of the departmental committee on compensation for industrial disease.
  • The procedures for identifying causal factors in industrial disease differ.
British Dictionary definitions for industrial disease

industrial disease

noun
1.
any disease to which workers in a particular industry are prone
industrial disease in Medicine

industrial disease in·dus·tri·al disease (ĭn-dŭs'trē-əl)
n.

  1. A pathological condition resulting from exposure to a toxin discharged by a business or industry into the environment.

  2. An occupational disease.