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pneumonia

13 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. pneumonia (noun)
  2. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (noun)
  3. aspiration pneumonia (noun)
  4. brooder pneumonia (noun)
  5. catarrhal pneumonia (noun)
  6. croupous pneumonia (noun)
  7. double pneumonia (noun)
  8. lipid pneumonia (noun)
  9. mycotic pneumonia (noun)
  10. primary atypical pneumonia (noun)
  11. septic pneumonia (noun)
  12. walking pneumonia (noun)
  13. stockyard fever (noun)

pneu·mo·nia

noun \nu̇-ˈmō-nyə, nyu̇-\

Definition of PNEUMONIA

: a disease of the lungs characterized especially by inflammation and consolidation of lung tissue followed by resolution and by fever, chills, cough, and difficulty in breathing and that is caused especially by infection
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Examples of PNEUMONIA

  1. He caught pneumonia over the winter.

Origin of PNEUMONIA

New Latin, from Greek, from pneumōn lung, alteration of pleumōn — more at pulmonary
First Known Use: 1603

Other Medicine Terms

analgesia, angina, diabetes, hepatitis, homeopathy, logorrhea, palliate, pandemic

Rhymes with PNEUMONIA

ammonia, begonia, tithonia

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