Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pneumonia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
pneumonia .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
pneumonia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He found in his autopsy observations confirmation of this view and concludes that "madness is to phrenitis what pulmonary consumption is to pneumony, that is, a chronic state of an acute disease."
A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921
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"Come in out of dat rain, chile, or you sho 'will have de pneumony," she said.
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Sometimes they made poultices outen garlic for the pneumony.
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Garlic and whiskey, and den, dar ain't nothin 'better fer the pneumony dan splinter tea.
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This is the way it was; first the influenza, and then the pneumony.
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I figure I ain't half so likely to catch pneumony as y'u would be to get heart trouble if y'u went walking with
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Afore he gets through his symptoms have developed into bronchitis and pneumony, with gallopin 'consumption dead ahead.
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"Good land! you all're so clean in here I'm feared of ketchin 'the pneumony."
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Why, when I had the pneumony last winter I sent and got a bagful - and I had 'em cooked all right; and way in the night, whilst I had a fever, I would retch out and get a turnip and eat it.
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"I would have asked, only most of de people laughs at me and tells me to clear out, and they think I'm lyin 'when I say dad's sick, and say they guess he must drink de money up, which is a lie itself, 'cause dad don't drink a drop; he's got pneumony, so de doctor says, and he's coughin' all de time."
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