| NOUN | state | lobar pneumonia | pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung |
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| Meaning | pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection. | |
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| Narrower | 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 |
| double pneumonia | lobar pneumonia involving both lungs | |
| Broader | pneumonia | respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants |
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