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pneumonia

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Pneumonia is the third and last studio album by the alternative country band Whiskeytown , released in 2001 . The album is noted for its troubled history which saw the band lose its record deal in the midst of the merger between Polygram and Universal Music ...

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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE bacterial ▪ Logistic regression models were used to determine which variables significantly and independently could predict bacterial pneumonia and to adjust for potential confounders. ▪ Conclusions - Seroconversion ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Modern Latin, from Greek pneumonia "inflammation of the lungs," from pneumon "lung," altered (perhaps by influence of pnein "to breathe") from pleumon "lung," literally "floater," probably cognate with Latin pulmo (see pulmonary ), from PIE ...

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.