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Inflammation of the lungs.

Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.

Pneumonia. (Obsoles.)

Pulmonary consumption.

Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.

; rattling. Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.

posit or membrance like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.

The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.

A suborder of Dipnoi, including the Ceratodus. [Written also monopneumonia.]

Of or pertaining to peripneumonia.

Having the nature or properties of phlegmon; as, phlegmonous pneumonia. Harvey.

Pleuropneumonia.

A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.

Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.

Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.

See Pneumonia.

A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.

winter. -- Winter fat. (Bot.) Same as White sage, under White. -- Winter fever (Med.), pneumonia. [Colloq.] -- Winter flounder. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Flounder. -- Winter gull (Zoöl.), the common European gull; -- called also winter mew. [Prov. Eng.] -- Winter itch. (Med.) See Prarie itch, under Prairie. -- Wi…