Pneumonic Definition

no͝o-mŏnĭk, nyo͝o-
adjective
Of, affecting, or relating to the lungs; pulmonary.
American Heritage
Relating to, affected by, or similar to pneumonia.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
noun

One who has pneumonia.

Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Pneumonic

Noun

Singular:
pneumonic
Plural:
pneumonics

Origin of Pneumonic

  • New Latin pneumonicus from Greek pneumonikos of the lungs from pneumōn lung pleu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the post-Classical Latin pneumonicus and its etymon, the Ancient Greek πνευμονικός (pneumonikos).

    From Wiktionary

Pneumonic Sentence Examples

  • Both died of pneumonic plague, from which also Barisch had undoubtedly suffered.

  • When plague is prevalent in a locality, the diagnosis is easy in fairly well-marked cases of the bubonic type, but less so in the other varieties.When it is not prevalent the diagnosis is never easy, and in pneumonic and septicaemic cases it is impossible without bacteriological assistance.

  • When it is not prevalent the diagnosis is never easy, and in pneumonic and septicaemic cases it is impossible without bacteriological assistance.

  • In plague countries the diseases with which it is most liable to be confounded are malaria, relapsing fever and typhus, or broncho-pneumonia in pneumonic cases.

  • People who got the bubonic strain of the disease often took longer to die than those people who got the pneumonic plague.

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Words Starting With

PPNPNE

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