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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An acute, sometimes fatal respiratory disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Legionella, especially L. pneumophila, and characterized by severe pneumonia, headache, and a dry cough.
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- noun acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[So called because it was first recognized when an outbreak occurred during an American Legion Convention in Philadelphia in 1976.]
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