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I immediately called my husband at work. He is a registered respiratory therapist. He said it is a real word and a real disease. The reason he thinks it is not commonly used is because it is so darned long. I can just see a journalist asking "how do you spell that?" of the doctor.

Anyway, real word, real disease and Mike says really nasty.

Great article. Thanks, bexlind

This sounds like pulmonary fibrosis.Which is an equally horrible lung disease.