Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; pneumonia aggravated by pleurisy.
- noun An infectious febrile disease of cattle, caused by a mycoplasma and characterized by inflammation of the pleura and lungs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, pleurisy combined with pneumonia.
- noun A specific contagious disease, peculiar to cattle, affecting the lungs and the pleura, supposed to be caused by some form of micro-organism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine
inflammation of thepleura andlungs ; a combination ofpleurisy andpneumonia , especially a kind ofcontagious andfatal lungplague ofcattle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pleurisy and pneumonia
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was a concerted attempt to implicate a group called the pleuropneumonia-like organisms as the cause of the arthritic diseases.
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The Botswana government plans to destroy 10,000 cattle in its ongoing campaign to stop the spread of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, a form of lung disease.
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In northern Australia buffaloes deliberately infected with bovine pleuropneumonia bacteria exhibited slight fever, but the disease never appeared.
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It is frequently met with in influenza, contagious pleuropneumonia, hog-cholera and rheumatism.
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_The symptoms_ of pericarditis may not be recognized at the very beginning when the disease occurs as a complication of influenza, or infectious pleuropneumonia.
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Of these organisms the largest is that which produces pleuropneumonia in cattle, and this alone has been cultivated.
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Among the human diseases, yellow fever, poliomyelitis, and dengue are so produced; of the animal diseases in addition to foot and mouth disease, pleuropneumonia, cattle plague,
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In the chronic form, marked symptoms of pleuropneumonia and chronic inflammation of the intestine are common.
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Give the cause and treatment of contagious pleuropneumonia.
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This occurs in tuberculosis, pleuropneumonia of horses and pneumococcus infection.
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