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LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Legionnaires' disease" is a kind of...):
lobar pneumonia (pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection)
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