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What is the noun for pneumonia?

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pneumonia
  1. An acute or chronic inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms, or sometimes by physical or chemical irritants.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The 7 cases in older children were found to have cystic lesions on radiographs in the course of 1 or more bouts of pneumonia.”
      “During the 16-month study period, pneumonia was diagnosed radiographically in 32 of the 246 patients assessed.”
      “The patient may become acutely ill and need to be admitted to the hospital with pneumonia.”
pneumococcus
  1. A gram-positive bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, that causes pneumonia and other infectious diseases
  2. Examples:
    1. “We investigated uptake of pneumococcus and influenza vaccine in all children with diabetes in our area.”
      “The pneumococcus, a bacterium, is responsible for about a third of community pneumonia cases.”
      “Vaccines are now also given against the pneumococcus organism, a common cause of bacterial pneumonia.”
pneumocyclicin
  1. A particular bacteriocin produced by the pneumococcus bacterium.
pneumoniac
  1. A person who has pneumonia.
pneumony
  1. Archaic form of pneumonia.
pneumonic
  1. One who has pneumonia.
pneumococci
  1. plural of pneumococcus
  2. Examples:
    1. “Other agents occasionally implicated are pneumococci, staphylococci, streptococci, and Candida albicans.”
      “Fifteen to twenty percent of the elderly who are sick with pneumococci die from this infection, so it is well worth preventing.”
      “The pneumococcal vaccine now available consists of polysaccharide antigens from many of the most common types of pathogenic pneumococci.”
pneumoniacs
  1. plural of pneumoniac
pneumonias
  1. plural of pneumonia
  2. Examples:
    1. “Five to 15 days after exposure a pneumonia that is not very different from other less virulent pneumonias acquired in the community develops.”
      “Radiographically, SARS is closely mimicked by bacterial bronchopneumonia or other viral pneumonias.”
      “And on the nursing front, Alwin notes that there's been an outbreak of atypical pneumonias in Asia, possibly harbingers of a more virulent flu strain to come.”
pneumonics
  1. plural of pneumonic
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