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PLEUROPNEUMONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pleuropneumonia mean? 

PLEUROPNEUMONIA (noun)
  The noun PLEUROPNEUMONIA has 1 sense:

1. pleurisy and pneumoniaplay

  Familiarity information: PLEUROPNEUMONIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLEUROPNEUMONIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleurisy and pneumonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pleuropneumonia" is a kind of...):

pneumonia (respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants)

pleurisy (inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer))


 Context examples 


Some serotypes of A. pleuropneumoniae cause respiratory disease in pigs.

(Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, NCI Thesaurus)

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae.

(Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)



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