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pneumonia

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pneumonia /njuːˈməʊnɪə/

▶noun a lung infection in which the air sacs fill with pus.

– derivatives
pneumonic adjective.

– origin C17: via L. from Gk, from pneumōn ‘lung’.

'pneumonia' also found in these Oxford entries:

double pneumonia - legionnaires' disease - PCP - pleuropneumonia - pneumococcus - pneumocystis - psittacosis - streptococcus - wool-sorters' disease

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