LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Legionnaires' disease mean? • LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE (noun)
The noun LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE has 1 sense:
1. 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; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough
Familiarity information: LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE (noun)
Meaning:
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; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Legionnaires' disease" is a kind of...):
lobar pneumonia (pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection)
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