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LOBAR PNEUMONIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection
Classified under:
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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