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pneumonia

/noo-mohn-yuh, -moh-nee-uh, nyoo-/US // nʊˈmoʊn yə, -ˈmoʊ ni ə, nyʊ- //UK // (njuːˈməʊnɪə) //

肺炎,肺病,炎症,炎症性肺炎

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pathology.

    • : inflammation of the lungs with congestion.
    • : Also called lobar pneumonia. an acute disease of the lungs, caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae and characterized by fever, a cough with blood-tinged phlegm, and difficult breathing.

Examples

  • Then, in December 2019, the first reports emerged from Wuhan, China, about a scary transmissible pneumonia, most likely some kind of bat virus.

  • The influenza’s unprecedented tendency to cause pneumonia meant that many would die within just several days of infection.

  • The pneumonia cleared up after a few days but my dad remained positive for coronavirus so he couldn’t leave for a nursing home to get rehab for his leg.

  • At this time last year, most Americans had not yet heard of a strange cluster of pneumonia cases affecting people in Wuhan, China.

  • He caught pneumonia at the beginning of the pandemic and was hospitalized.

  • He contracted pneumonia, but he recovered and returned to demonstrating.

  • The following year, he developed pneumocystis pneumonia—a serious infection associated with HIV and AIDS.

  • Spread happens easily, however, and epidemics are propagated when the third form of plague occurs: pneumonia plague.

  • Context: The comedian said this to his much-younger wife, Erin Fleming, before succumbing to pneumonia.

  • Back in my home in Perryville, Missouri, I attended a lady who was dying of pneumonia.

  • It is sometimes met with in the sputum of catarrhal pneumonia, bronchitis, and tuberculosis.

  • In pneumonia chlorids are constantly very low, and in some cases are absent entirely.

  • When pneumonia occurs during the course of a chronic bronchitis, the characteristic rusty red sputum may not appear.

  • This condition caused many "flu" patients to develop pneumonia and to die.

  • In other diseases, like diphtheria and pneumonia, they are soon lost,—hence the recurrence of such diseases.