lobar pneumonia

Noun
  1. Pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung;
    Commonly due to streptococcal infection (synset 114172128)
    is a type of: pneumonia - respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants
    subtypes:
    • double pneumonia - lobar pneumonia involving both lungs
    • legionnaires' disease - 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

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