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Webster 1913 Edition


Pleuropneumonia

Pleuˊro-pneu-mo′ni-a

,
Noun.
[
Pleuro-
+
pneumonia
.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.

Definition 2024


pleuropneumonia

pleuropneumonia

English

Noun

pleuropneumonia (plural pleuropneumonias)

  1. (medicine) inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, especially a kind of contagious and fatal lung plague of cattle