Both Uses
pneumonia
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
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- The doctors say I won't die from AIDS—I'll die from pneumonia or TB or a bacterial infection in the brain; but if you ask me, that's just semantics.†
*pneumonia = lung disease characterized by accumulation of fluid in the lungs
- AIDS-related pneumonia.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(pneumonia) a respiratory disease characterized by inflammation and accumulation of fluid in the lungs; caused by infectious agents (e.g., viruses or bacteria) or by inhalation of certain irritants
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)