legionnaires'_disease |
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| 1. | [ noun ] (medicine) 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 | |
| Related terms: | lobar_pneumonia | |
| Similar spelling: |
legionnaire's_disease |
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