棉尘肺,又称棉尘症等,是一种因暴露于棉尘、亚麻尘、大麻尘等植物性粉尘而引起的、以“星期一症状”为基本特征的棉(麻)纺业工人的职业性呼吸道疾病。本世纪五十年代英国学者Schilling等先后发表了几篇有关论著后,再次引起了学者们的重视,进行了较为广泛和系统的研究。英、美、俄、日、德、埃及、中国等都陆续报道了棉尘肺患病和研究情况。1969年在日本东京第十六次国际劳 Cotton dust, also known as cotton dust disease, is a result of exposure to cotton dust, linen dust, marijuana and other plant dust caused by the “Monday symptoms” as the basic characteristics of cotton (linen) textile workers Occupational respiratory disease. In the 1950s, British scholar Schilling et al. Published several related treatises, arousing scholars’ attention once more and conducting a more extensive and systematic research. Britain, the United States, Russia, Japan, Germany, Egypt, China and so on have reported the cotton pneumoconiosis and research. 1969 in Tokyo, Japan sixteenth international labor