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semiotics

[see-mee-ot-iks, sem-ee-, see-mahy-] / ˌsi miˈɒt ɪks, ˌsɛm i-, ˌsi maɪ- /
NOUN
study of signs as elements of communication
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With it he forces air, or oxygen, into the lungs of silicotics.

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In the Ontario gold mines, 34 silicotics breathed the dust for half an hour six days a week.

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But silicotics are extraordinarily susceptible to tuberculosis, frequently die from it.

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Dr. John William Guy Hannon of Washington, Pa. tried the dust on 176 silicotics in the ceramics, steel and glass industries, improved 168 of them.

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