atypical pneumonia
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- noun
- /eɪˈtɪpɪkəl nuˈmoʊniə/
- Specialized
:
neumonía atípica
- Last month, my doctor diagnosed me with atypical pneumonia after I had a persistent cough and high fever.
Examples
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With the exception of M pneumoniae, which causes atypical pneumonia, the role of human mycoplasmas in disease is difficult to assess.
Academic text (1991) -
The first study exposed the soldiers and some prisoners to Q fever, which is similar to typhus but much milder and commonly accompanied by atypical pneumonia.
Academic text (1999) -
The results, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, proved that atypical pneumonia spread like an infection and could be transmitted.
Academic text (1992) -
The purpose of the experiment was to find out the cause, prevention, and treatment of atypical pneumonia and other types of colds.
Academic text (1992) -
Their throats had been sprayed with infectious material obtained from patients with atypical pneumonia.
Academic text (1992) -
Sixteen of the seventy-eight men contracted atypical pneumonia, and a number of others developed colds.
Academic text (1992) -
After a year of hospital work, I volunteered to become a caretaker in a human guinea pig experiment for the study of atypical pneumonia.
Academic text (1992) -
Children aged five to fifteen are most at risk for atypical pneumonia, which often starts with flu-like symptoms.
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The research study focused on the effects of atypical pneumonia in young adults, revealing a significant impact on their lung function.
Synonyms
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4.3
A serious lung infection that makes breathing hard and causes fever
A lung infection in children and young adults that causes high fever and cough
A lung infection caused by mycoplasma bacteria that causes high fever and a dry cough in children and young adults
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'atypical' (deviating from the norm) and 'pneumonia' (a lung infection) can readily infer that 'atypical pneumonia' refers to a form of pneumonia that differs from the typical presentation. While specific clinical details or causative organisms are not predictable from the words alone, the core meaning is compositionally transparent and mirrors similar constructions in many languages.
Etymology
Atypical pneumonia comes from doctors noticing lung infections that did not look like the usual kind and often had different germs or symptoms. Because these cases were called 'not typical', doctors used the name atypical pneumonia to show it is an unusual kind of pneumonia that may need different treatment.