ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does atypical pneumonia mean? 

• ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA (noun)
  The noun ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA has 1 sense:

1. an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults

  Familiarity information: ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA (noun)

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Meaning:

An acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

atypical pneumonia; mycoplasmal pneumonia; primary atypical pneumonia

Hypernyms ("atypical pneumonia" is a kind of...):

respiratory disease; respiratory disorder; respiratory illness (a disease affecting the respiratory system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atypical pneumonia"):

ornithosis; parrot fever; psittacosis (an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds)