novel coronavirus pneumonia
- noun
- /ˈnɑvəl ˌkɔrənəˈvaɪrəs pəˈnoʊmiə/
- Specialized
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neumonía por coronavirus novel
- Doctors reported that patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia often experienced fever, cough, and difficulty breathing.
Examples
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The World Health Organization declared novel coronavirus pneumonia a global pandemic due to its rapid transmission worldwide.
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Many countries enforced lockdowns to slow the spread of novel coronavirus pneumonia in 2020.
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The novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak began in late 2019.
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Many patients suffered from novel coronavirus pneumonia during the pandemic.
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Doctors reported that patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia often experienced fever, cough, and difficulty breathing.
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The World Health Organization declared novel coronavirus pneumonia a global pandemic due to its rapid transmission worldwide.
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Many countries enforced lockdowns to slow the spread of novel coronavirus pneumonia in 2020.
Synonyms
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An infection of the lungs caused by a virus that makes breathing difficult
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A disease caused by a new virus that spread around the world in 2020
A disease caused by a new coronavirus first seen in 2019 that spreads easily
A serious illness first found in 2019 caused by a new virus that affects breathing and spreads worldwide
A virus infection from the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that affects the lungs and airways, also called COVID-19
A former name for COVID-19, a virus that causes lung illness
A disease caused by a virus first found in Wuhan, China in 2019 that spread around the world in 2020
An illness caused by a coronavirus that affects the lungs and breathing, for example COVID-19
Surface Forms
Morphology
novel + coronavirus + pneumonia
The phrase is fully compositional: 'novel' = new, 'coronavirus' = the virus, and 'pneumonia' = a lung infection, so the meaning (‘a new pneumonia caused by a coronavirus’) is directly derivable from its parts. This follows standard medical naming patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Novel coronavirus pneumonia describes a new lung illness. Here, novel means 'new', coronavirus refers to the virus with spikes that look like a 'crown', and pneumonia means a 'lung infection', so the name points to the new virus that causes this lung infection.