MYCOPLASMAL PNEUMONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mycoplasmal pneumonia mean? 

• MYCOPLASMAL PNEUMONIA (noun)
  The noun MYCOPLASMAL 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: MYCOPLASMAL PNEUMONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYCOPLASMAL PNEUMONIA (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("mycoplasmal 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 "mycoplasmal pneumonia"):

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

 Context examples 

Presence of cold agglutinins may be indicative of mycoplasmal pneumonia, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, some parasitic infections, cirrhosis of the liver, and some types of hemolytic anemia.

(Cold Agglutinin, NCI Thesaurus)