LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Legionnaires' disease" is a kind of...):

lobar pneumonia (pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection)

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