bronchial pneumonia
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- noun
- /ˈbrɒŋkiəl njuːˈmoʊniə/
- Specialized
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neumonía bronquial
- died of bronchial pneumonia
Examples
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Carnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts, of bronchial pneumonia.
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She died while suffering from bilateral bronchial pneumonia after taking on a detox cleanse, is what I reported.
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At last, after a winter bout with bronchial pneumonia, the judge had lost the battle for self-sufficiency, and, despite his bitter objections, Becky Tilden had brought him back to Tennessee, where she wouldn't be so alone in caring for the old man.
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The doctor diagnosed her with bronchial pneumonia after she experienced severe coughing and difficulty breathing.
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After being hospitalized for a week, he recovered from bronchial pneumonia and was able to return home.
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Children are particularly vulnerable to bronchial pneumonia, which can develop from untreated respiratory infections.
Synonyms
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4.3
A serious lung infection that makes breathing hard and causes fever
An infection of the small airways of the lungs that makes them swollen
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is an adjectival composition where 'bronchial' (relating to the air passages) modifies 'pneumonia' (lung infection), so the meaning—a pneumonia affecting the bronchioles—is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional medical labeling is cross-linguistically regular and follows standard English adjective+noun patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it.
Etymology
Bronchial pneumonia comes from bronchial, about the bronchi or small 'air tubes' in the lungs, and pneumonia, meaning a 'lung infection'. The image is of those tiny air tubes and their walls becoming swollen and full of infection, so the name means an infection that affects the bronchi in the lungs.