pneumonic
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7.7
- adjective
- /njuˈmɒnɪk/
- Specialized
:
neumónico
- As recently as 1994, there were 693 suspected cases of bubonic or pneumonic plague in India.
Examples
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No pathogen was identified in the remaining three patients with normal CXR, despite pathological changes consistent with the pneumonic process.
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The pneumonic form can be caused by inhalation or by hematogenous spread of the pathogen from other sites.
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- A contagious pneumonic plague.
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Out of these animals, five buffaloes and three cattle showed pneumonic changes.
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The outbreak is mainly pneumonic and spreads quickly via airborne droplets.
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And then there's pneumonic plague, which again is the same disease but clinically and epidemiologically distinct.
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Just a century and a half earlier, one-third of the population of Europe was wiped out by a series of bubonic and pneumonic plagues.
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A finding of either typhoidal or pneumonic tularemia, especially in an urban setting, would raise the specter of an act of bioterrorism.
Academic text (2003) -
Another aspect of this disease worth noting is that typhoidal or pneumonic tularemia, especially in non-endemic areas, should suggest the possibility of an act of bioterrorism.
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The doctor explained that the symptoms of the disease were pneumonic, affecting the patient's lungs severely.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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9.2
A serious lung infection that spreads between people through the air
Surface Forms
Morphology
pneumonic = pneumonia (transparent) = pneumon + ic
The adjective is formed by adding the productive adjectival suffix '-ic' to the lung-related base (as in 'pneumonia'), so the meaning 'relating to the lungs or pneumonia' is directly derivable.
Etymology
The word pneumonic comes from the Greek root pneumon meaning 'lung' and from pneuma meaning 'breath', and you can see the same root in pneumonia, so pneumonic describes illnesses that affect the lungs.