lobar pneumonia

lobar pneumonia
lobar pneumonia n acute pneumonia involving one or more lobes of the lung characterized by sudden onset, chill, fever, difficulty in breathing, cough, and blood-stained sputum, marked by consolidation, and normally followed by resolution and return to normal of the lung tissue

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1. a type of acute bacterial pneumonia with abundant edema, usually limited to just one lobe of a lung; the most common kind is pneumococcal pneumonia. 2. pneumococcal p.

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