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
We had lobar pneumonia, meningococcal meningitis, streptococcal infections, diphtheria, endocarditis, enteric fevers, various septicemias, syphilis, and, always, everywhere, tuberculosis.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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