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pneumonia

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pneumonia \Pneu*mo"ni*a\ (n[-u]*m[=o]"n[i^]*[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. pneymoni`a, fr. pney`mwn, pl. pney`mones the lungs, also, pley`mwn, which is perh. the original form. Cf. Pneumatio , Pulmonary .] (Med.) Inflammation of the lungs. Note: Catarrhal pneumonia ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung in humans. This may also refer to: Pneumonia (non-human) , the condition above but in animals Pneumonia front , a rare meteorological phenomenon on western Lake Michigan Pneumonia (album) , an album by ...

Usage examples of pneumonia.

In his later statistics Morisani gives 55 cases with 2 maternal deaths and 1 infantile death, while Zweifel reports 14 cases from the Leipzig clinic with no maternal death and 2 fetal deaths, 1 from asphyxia and 1 from pneumonia, two days after birth.

Remember that coal is cheaper than colds, to say nothing of consumption and pneumonia.

It had its beginnings in the final quarter of the last century, and decades of the most painstaking and demanding research were required before the etiology of pneumonia, scarlet fever, meningitis, and the rest could be worked out.

Behema had her kid and Mickey had his broken leg wherein our dear Hooly died, of pneumonia and exposure and downers.

We had lobar pneumonia, meningococcal meningitis, streptococcal infections, diphtheria, endocarditis, enteric fevers, various septicemias, syphilis, and, always, everywhere, tuberculosis.

The good news was that the pneumonia sounded confined to the left lower lobe, and lobar pneumonia responded well to antibiotics.

Not in three months could a ninetypound survivor of two attacks of pneumonia develop sufficient ruggedness to live through an Oregon winter in the open.

His youngest brother, Dev, had died of pneumonia the year he began at the yards, and Stu had never quite gotten over that.

With typhoidal tularemia there may be no X-ray evidence of pneumonia, and the ulcers and swollen lymph nodes that characterize the other most common forms may be absent.

Since, with most patients, it was normal to use penicillin to treat pneumonia, it appeared that Townsend had either read the allergy warning in his file, or had remembered it-perhaps both.

Her parents were instructed, via an English-speaking relative, to give her 250 milligrams of ampicillin twice a day, to clear up her aspiration pneumonia, and twenty milligrams of Dilantin elixir, an anticonvulsant, twice a day, to suppress any further grand mal seizures.

She was continually worrying over rattlesnakes and diphtheria and pneumonia, and begging Brit to sell out and live in town.

I have been troubled with a severe lung and bronchial disease, following a severe attack of pneumonia.

Bronchitis both acute and chronic, chronic pneumonia and phthisis, acute pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia, may all leave after them a bronchiectasis whose position is determined by the primary lesion.

I speak much within bounds when I say that nine-tenths of the deaths by measles occur in consequence of pneumonia.