Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of fungi of the genus Pneumocystis, especially P. jirovecii, which causes pneumonia in immunocompromised individuals.
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- noun pathology An
infection of thelungs by theparasitic protozoan Pneumocystis carinii
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Twenty-five have suffered symptoms, but only 13 have developed "AIDS-defining" illnesses such as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
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On June 5, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports a cluster of pneumocystis in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.
World AIDS Day: timeline of a worldwide pandemic (Photos) Melissa Bell 2010
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AIDS patients who survive early bouts with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and other once lethal infections are now falling prey to an array of other maladies.
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Shortly after returning to Antwerp, Piot read a report from Los Angeles describing five young men -- all "active homosexuals" -- who'd suffered months of thrush, fevers and weight loss before dying of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
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In February 1987, Chalk was hospitalized with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and was diagnosed as having AIDS.
Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995
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The boy has a recent history of multiple infections and there was pneumocystis swimming around in his blood so we put him in Laminar Flow, planned to keep him there for the first course of chemo, and then check how the immune system was working.
Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986
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The boy has a recent history of multiple infections and there was pneumocystis swimming around in his blood so we put him in Laminar Flow, planned to keep him there for the first course of chemo, and then check how the immune system was working.
Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986
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The boy has a recent history of multiple infections and there was pneumocystis swimming around in his blood so we put him in Laminar Flow, planned to keep him there for the first course of chemo, and then check how the immune system was working.
Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986
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The boy has a recent history of multiple infections and there was pneumocystis swimming around in his blood so we put him in Laminar Flow, planned to keep him there for the first course of chemo, and then check how the immune system was working.
Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986
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The first federal announcement, 30 years ago this week, concerned "five young men, all active homosexuals," with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, or P.C.P., a disease "almost exclusively limited to severely immunosuppressed patients."
NYT > Global Home M.D. By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN 2011
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