pneumonic
pronunciation
How to pronounce pneumonic in British English:
UK [nju:'mɒnɪk]
How to pronounce pneumonic in American English:
US [nju'mɒnɪk]
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- Adjective:
- pertaining to or characterized by or affected by pneumonia
- relating to or affecting the lungs
Word Origin
- pneumonic (adj.)
- "pertaining to the lungs," 1670s, from Latin pneumonicus, from Greek pneumonikos "of the lungs," from pneumon (see pneumonia).
Example
- 1. Is canada next for the pneumonic plague ?
- 2. In 2009 china ended a quarantine blockade around a remote northwestern town hit by pneumonic plague .
- 3. Pneumonic plague occurs when the bacteria infects the lungs , or after complications from bubonic plague that goes untreated .
- 4. Now pneumonic plague symptoms there !
- 5. Any doubt it 's pneumonic plague ?