Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, affecting, or relating to the lungs; pulmonary.
- adjective Relating to, affected by, or similar to pneumonia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the lungs; pulmonary.—2. Pertaining to pneumonia; affected with pneumonia; pulmomtic: as. pneumonic patients.
- noun A remedy used in diseases of the lungs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.
- adjective Of or pertaining to pneumonia.
- noun (Med.) A medicine for affections of the lungs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to the
lungs ;pulmonary . - adjective Of, or relating to
pneumonia . - noun One who has
pneumonia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to or characterized by or affected by pneumonia
- adjective relating to or affecting the lungs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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That was a different form of plague for the most part, a form of plague called pneumonic plague.
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The more fatal form is known as pneumonic plague, and in this the lungs are the seat of the disease.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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The three types of plague identified as such are: septicemic, bubonic and pneumonic.
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The pneumonic and septicemic were less seen than the bubonic.
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That meant he could have picked up an illness from the environment, or from a bird or a rodent—possibly valley fever, hantavirus, avian influenza, or even pneumonic plague.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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But I do have a little rhyme that I created 'cause children learn better from song, pneumonic devices.
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He said Monday that most of the infections are bubonic plague, with four cases of pneumonic plague.
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But I do have a little rhyme that I created 'cause children learn better from song, pneumonic devices.
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That meant he could have picked up an illness from the environment, or from a bird or a rodent—possibly valley fever, hantavirus, avian influenza, or even pneumonic plague.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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That meant he could have picked up an illness from the environment, or from a bird or a rodent—possibly valley fever, hantavirus, avian influenza, or even pneumonic plague.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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