The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pneumonic \Pneu*mon"ic\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. pneumonique.]
Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.
Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.
Pneumonic \Pneu*mon"ic\, n. (Med.) A medicine for affections of the lungs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to the lungs," 1670s, from Latin pneumonicus, from Greek pneumonikos "of the lungs," from pneumon (see pneumonia).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to the lungs; pulmonary. 2 Of, or relating to pneumonia. n. One who has pneumonia.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pneumonic may refer to:
- Lung
- Pneumonic plague, a lung infection with Yersinia pestis
- Pneumonic device
- Someone with Pneumonia
Usage examples of "pneumonic".
The tidal regularity of cerebral chemical flows, the cyclonic violence latent in the adrenergic current of the autonomic nervous system, the delicate mysteries of the sweep of oxygen atoms from pneumonic membrane into the bloodstream.
As those words were written on his chart Amado Ortega was dying of bubonic plague in its wildly infectious pneumonic form.
Any scab worth his yeast knew that those insect vectors were stuffed to bursting with swift and ghastly illnesses, pneumonic plague and necrotizing fasciitis among the friendlier ones.
As those words were written on his chart Amado Ortega was dying of bubonic plague in its wildly infectious pneumonic form.
Then there's pneumonic plague, when the bacilli are localized in the lungs - and septicemic plague, when the blood is infected.
That, and the stage the epidemic had reached had made her think he had the pneumonic plague, and she hadn't seen any buboes under his arms when she took his coat off.
We know it's a type of pneumonic plague, but we don't know how it's transmitted, and we don't have the remotest idea how to cure it.
A case of pneumonic plague in March in New York City, supposedly contracted in a hospital!
It had happened again in Oakland, California, in 1919, when a victim, infected with pneumonic plague by a squirrel flea, spread the bacilli with his cough before he died.
When that happens three times with something like hemorrhagic smallpox or pneumonic plague or chicken pox….
They tried typhoid, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, meningitis, and tularemia.
Any scab worth his yeast knew that those insect vectors were stuffed to bursting with swift and ghastly illnesses, pneumonic plague and necrotizing fasciitis among the friendlier ones.
If, by virtue of the strict quarantine in which he lay, he did not contract a secondary infection, pulmonary, pneumonic, or bronchial seemed the readiest to pounce on the weakened patient, then he ought to improve rapidly.