What is "pleuropneumonia"

Pleuropneumonia \Pleu`ro*pneu*mo"ni*a\, n. [Pleuro- + pneumonia.] (Med.) Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.

n. (context medicine English) inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, especially a kind of contagious and fatal lung plague of cattle

n. pleurisy and pneumonia

Pleuropneumonia is inflammation of the lungs and pleura, pleurisy being the inflammation of the pleura alone.