lobar pneumonia
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1. pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | pneumonia, |
| definition | : | respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | double pneumonia, |
| definition | : | lobar pneumonia involving both lungs (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | legionnaires' disease, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.state) |
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