| NOUN | state | Legionnaires' disease | acute (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 |
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| Meaning | Acute (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. | |
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| Broader | lobar pneumonia | pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung |
| Catalan | Legionel·losi | |
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