lobar pneumonia
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lobar pneumonia
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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A post-mortem examination found he died from lobar pneumonia - a severe bacterial infection.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner announced in January 2019 that she died a natural death due to lobar pneumonia — despite conspiracy theories that were shut down by her children.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024
It’s also on his death certificate filed in New York in 1903 after he died of what is listed as acute lobar pneumonia.
From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2018
Leukemia patients also sometimes came down with lobar pneumonia.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 14, 2015
It is what physicians used to be engaged in at the bedside of patients with diphtheria, meningitis, poliomyelitis, lobar pneumonia, and all the rest of the infectious diseases that have since come under control.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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