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ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults
Synonyms:
atypical pneumonia; mycoplasmal pneumonia; primary atypical pneumonia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("atypical pneumonia" is a kind of...):
respiratory disease; respiratory disorder; respiratory illness (a disease affecting the respiratory system)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atypical pneumonia"):
ornithosis; parrot fever; psittacosis (an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds)
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