LOBAR PNEUMONIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("lobar pneumonia" is a kind of...):

pneumonia (respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lobar pneumonia"):

double pneumonia (lobar pneumonia involving both lungs)

Legionnaires' disease (acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough)

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