单词 | pneumonia |
释义 | pneumonia (once / 2009 pages) n Pneumonia is a lung infection that gives you a cough and a fever and generally makes it difficult to breathe. If you catch pneumonia, you may end up in the hospital. You've probably had people warn you not to go out in the rain without an umbrella or out in the cold without a hat or scarf because you’ll catch pneumonia. While they have your best interests in mind, you don’t actually get pneumonia from being cold or wet. Pneumonia is caused by viruses or bacteria. It’s a pretty common disease, but unfortunately it can be very serious in some cases, particularly in young children and elderly people. WORD FAMILYpneumonia: pneumonias+/pneumonic: pneumonia USAGE EXAMPLESAlso called pneumococcus, this pathogen is the most common perpetrator of community-acquired pneumonia, which is pneumonia that people get outside hospitals and nursing homes. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Problem: Pneumonia kills 27,000 Ugandan children under the age of five every year. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) But later that afternoon her physician releases a statement saying that two days earlier, Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) n respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants Hypo|Hyper bronchial pneumonia, bronchopneumonia pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles lobar pneumoniapneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection pneumococcal pneumoniapneumonia caused by bacteria of the genus pneumococcus interstitial plasma cell pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, pneumocystis pneumonia, pneumocytosispneumonia occurring in infants or in persons with impaired immune systems (as AIDS victims) pleuropneumoniapleurisy and pneumonia viral pneumoniapneumonia caused by a virus double pneumonialobar pneumonia involving both lungs Legionnaires' diseaseacute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough aspiration pneumoniainflammation of the lungs caused by inhaling or choking on vomitus; may occur during unconsciousness (anesthesia or drunkenness or seizure or cardiac arrest) respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness a disease affecting the respiratory system |
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